15th Congress of the APSR

Manila, 2010

Travel Grant Awardees

• Brinnell Caszo (Malaysia)
  Poster Presentation: The Association of Lung Function and Metabolic Syndrome Components in a Crosssectional Study of Malaysian Population
• Neelima Das (Bangladesh)
  Oral Presentation: Respiratory Morbidity and Lung Function of Women Exposed to Different Levels of Indoor Air Pollution in Rural Bangladesh: a cross-sectional study
• Christopher Cortes (Philippines)
  Oral Presentation: Preoperative Pulmonary Risk Assessment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
• M Hossein Rahimirad (Iran)
  Oral Presentation: Improved Use of Thromboprophylaxy with Attaching Written Risk Assessment Tool as Reminder to Patients Hospital Charts
• Yuki Shinagawa (Japan)
  Oral Presentation: Polymorphisms of Human Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene in High-altitude Pulmonary Edema Susceptible Subjects
• Takushi Namba (Japan)
  Oral Presentation: Induction of EMT-like Phenotypes by an Active Metabolite of Leflunomide and its Contribution to Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Kazutaka Mori (Japan)
  Oral Presentation: Measurement of Respiratory Resistance and Reactance using Forced Oscillation Technique in Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema
• Nitin Kapur (Australia)
  Oral Presentation: Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Microbiology and Airway Cellularity in Children with Newly Diagnosed Bronchiectasis
• Albert Li (Hong Kong)
  Oral Presentation: Three-year follow up of Aerobic Capacity in Children affected by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• S N Gaur (India)
  Oral Presentation: Comparative Efficacy and Acceptability of Mometasone Furoate and Cliclesonide Aqueous Nasal Spray in Allergic Rhinitis
• Nilda Maria Munoz (USA)
  Oral Presentation: Upregulated Expression of Secretory Group V Phospholipase A2 in Patients with Asthma but not with COPD or IPF
• Feni Fitriani (Indonesia)
  Poster Presentation: Prevalence of Asthma in a Group of 13-14 years old Students using the ISAAC Written Questionnaire in Jakarta
• Ma. Philina Pablo (Philippines)
  Oral Presentation: Meta-Analysis: Comparison of Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Sputum Induction in Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Girish Sindhwani (India)
  Oral Presentation: Evaluation of a One-day Protocol for Smear Microscopy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis
• Nobuhiro Asai (Japan)
  Poster Presentation: Efficacy and Safety of Amurubicin (AMR) for the Elderly with Refractory Relapse Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) who had Previous Treatment
• Hiroyuki Inoue (Japan)
  Oral Presentation: Coxsackievirus B Possesses Remarkable Oncolytic Activity against Human Lung Cancer without Lethal Side Effects
• Nor Ezleen Qistina (Malaysia)
  Poster Presentation: Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles of Peripheral Blood B Lymphocytes in Various Clinical Phenotypes of Asthma
• Alina Martynova (Russia)
  Oral Presentation: Etiology Strucutre of Causative Agents of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Different Age Groups
• Jae-Jeong Shim (Republic of Korea)
  Oral Presentation: Usefulness of Serum Procalcitonin in the Differential Diagnosis of Bacterial Pneumonia from Exacerbation in Patients with Interstitial Lung Disease
• Ken-ichiro Tanaka (Japan)
  Oral Presentation: Therapeutic Effect of Lecithinized Superoxide Dismutase (PC-SOD) on Elastase- and Cigarette Smoke-induced Pulmonary Emphysema in Mice
• Yin Yan (China)
  Oral Presentation: Regulation of Cigarette Smoke-induced Chronic Inflammation by PPAR-- in Alveolar Macrophages :Effect on Toll-like Receptor4 Pathway
• Justin Gnanou (Malaysia)
  Oral Presentation: Prediction Equations for Lung Function in Healthy, Non-smoking Malaysian Population
• Matsunuma Ryo (Japan)
  Oral Presentation: I-ROAD could be Efficient in Predicting Severity of Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) or Healthcare-associated-pneumonia (HCAP)
• Isser Sugay (Philippines)
  Poster Presentation: Advance Directives and Withdrawal of Life Support in Terminally Ill Patients: A discussion with pulmonologists
• Lolita Brigida Micu (Philippines)
  Poster Presentation: Determination of Time-delay of Endotracheal and Tracheal Tube Cuff
• Anne Estrella (Philippines)
  Poster Presentation: The Effect Of Using Endotracheal Tube with Sub-Glottic Secretion Drainage versus Conventional Endotracheal Tube In Preventing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia At St. Luke's Medical Center - A Randomized Clinical Trial
• Jeong Byeong Ho (Republic of Korea)
  Poster Presentation: Long-term Results of Interventional Bronchoscopy in the Management of Post-operative Tracheobronchial Stenosis
• Yashu Chang (New Zealand)
  
• Kazi Bennoor (Bangladesh)
  
• Ufuk Memis (Turkey)
  Poster Presentation: Sleep Related Breathing Disorders and Lung Function in Patients with Oculopharyngodistal Myopathy