Paediatrics: messages from Munich

Fabio Midulla; Enrico Lombardi; Marielle Pijnenburg; Ian M Balfour-Lynn; Jonathan Grigg; Kajsa Bohlin; Franca Rusconi; Petr Pohunek; Ernst Eber

doi:10.1183/23120541.00016-2015

Paediatrics: messages from Munich

ERJ Open Res. 2015 May 15;1(1):00016-2015. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00016-2015. eCollection 2015 May.

Authors

Fabio Midulla¹, Enrico Lombardi², Marielle Pijnenburg³, Ian M Balfour-Lynn⁴, Jonathan Grigg⁵, Kajsa Bohlin⁶, Franca Rusconi⁷, Petr Pohunek⁸, Ernst Eber⁹

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Paediatrics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Dept of Paediatrics, Anna Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
³ Dept of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁴ Dept of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
⁵ Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University, London, UK.
⁶ Dept of Neonatology, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁷ Unit of Epidemiology, Anna Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy.
⁸ Dept of Paediatrics, 2nd Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁹ Respiratory and Allergic Disease Division, Dept of Paediatrics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to describe paediatric highlights from the 2014 European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Munich, Germany. Abstracts from the seven groups of the ERS Paediatric Assembly (Respiratory Physiology and Sleep, Asthma and Allergy, Cystic Fibrosis, Respiratory Infection and Immunology, Neonatology and Paediatric Intensive Care, Respiratory Epidemiology, and Bronchology) are presented in the context of the current literature.