ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly

Theodoros Karampitsakos; Phuong Phuong Diep; Daan W Loth; Iftikhar Nadeem; Elene Khurtsidze; Marlies S Wijsenbeek; Wim A Wuyts; Elena Bargagli; Antoine Froidure; Paolo Spagnolo; Marcel Veltkamp; Maria Molina-Molina; Cormac McCarthy; Katerina M Antoniou; Michael Kreuter; Catharina C Moor

doi:10.1183/23120541.00584-2022

ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2023 Apr 17;9(2):00584-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00584-2022. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Theodoros Karampitsakos¹, Phuong Phuong Diep², Daan W Loth³, Iftikhar Nadeem⁴, Elene Khurtsidze⁵, Marlies S Wijsenbeek⁶, Wim A Wuyts⁷, Elena Bargagli⁸, Antoine Froidure⁹, Paolo Spagnolo¹⁰, Marcel Veltkamp^{11

12}, Maria Molina-Molina¹³, Cormac McCarthy¹⁴, Katerina M Antoniou¹⁵, Michael Kreuter¹⁶, Catharina C Moor⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Patras, Rio, Greece.
² Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amphia Hospital, Breda, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, New Vision University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁶ Department of Respiratory Medicine, ILD Center of Excellence, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁷ Unit for Interstitial Lung Disease, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁸ Respiratory Diseases Unit, Department of Medical, Surgery and Neurosciences, Siena University, Siena, Italy.
⁹ Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Institut de Recherche Expérimentale, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁰ Respiratory Disease Unit, Dept of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
¹¹ ILD Center of Excellence, Department of Pulmonology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
¹² Division of Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹³ Dept of Pneumology, Unit of Interstitial Lung Diseases, University Hospital of Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁴ UCD School of Medicine, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁵ Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology Laboratory, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
¹⁶ Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, and Interdisciplinary Center for Sarcoidosis, Pneumology, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg and German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.

Abstract

This article contains a selection of scientific highlights in the field of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) presented at the hybrid European Respiratory Society International Congress 2022. Early Career Members of Assembly 12 summarise recent advances in translational and clinical research in idiopathic interstitial pneumonias, ILDs of known origin, sarcoidosis and other granulomatous diseases, and rare ILDs. Many studies focused on evaluation of diagnostic and prognostic (bio)markers, and novel pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatment options for different ILDs. In addition, new insights in clinical, physiological and radiological features of various rare ILDs were presented.