Key paediatric messages from the 2018 European Respiratory Society International Congress

Raffaella Nenna; Katie A Hunt; Theodore Dassios; Jennifer J P Collins; Robbert J Rottier; Norrice M Liu; Bart Rottier; Myrofora Goutaki; Bülent Karadag; Andrew Prayle; Ricardo M Fernandes; Giuseppe Fabio Parisi; Jürg Barben; Bruna Rubbo; Deborah Snijders; Heidi Makrinioti; Graham Hall; Mariëlle W Pijnenburg; Jonathan Grigg

doi:10.1183/23120541.00241-2018

Key paediatric messages from the 2018 European Respiratory Society International Congress

ERJ Open Res. 2019 Apr 29;5(2):00241-2018. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00241-2018. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Authors

Raffaella Nenna^{1

2}, Katie A Hunt³, Theodore Dassios³, Jennifer J P Collins⁴, Robbert J Rottier⁴, Norrice M Liu⁵, Bart Rottier⁶, Myrofora Goutaki⁷, Bülent Karadag⁸, Andrew Prayle⁹, Ricardo M Fernandes^{10

11}, Giuseppe Fabio Parisi¹², Jürg Barben¹³, Bruna Rubbo^{14

15}, Deborah Snijders¹⁶, Heidi Makrinioti¹⁷, Graham Hall¹⁸, Mariëlle W Pijnenburg¹⁹, Jonathan Grigg²⁰

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Paediatrics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
³ Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
⁴ Dept of Paediatric Surgery, Sophia Children's Hospital, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁵ Centre for Genomics and Child Health, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University London, London, UK.
⁶ Beatrix Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁷ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁸ Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, Marmara University, School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁹ Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
¹⁰ Dept of Pediatrics, Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹¹ Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
¹² Dept of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
¹³ Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Children's Hospitals of Eastern Switzerland, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
¹⁴ Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia Centre, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
¹⁵ University of Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Academic Unit of Clinical and Experimental Science, Southampton, UK.
¹⁶ Dept of Women's and Children Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
¹⁷ Queen Mary University London, London, UK.
¹⁸ Telethon Kids Institute and Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
¹⁹ Dept of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁰ Centre for Paediatrics, Queen Mary University London, London, UK.

Abstract

In this article, the Group Chairs and early career members of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Paediatric Assembly highlight some of the most interesting findings in the field of paediatrics which were presented at the 2018 international ERS Congress.