APSR Assembly Virtual Meetings

The following webinars were held in November 2020.

The website used for these symposia was apsr.info and registration was free. Video recordings were online for one month affter each symposium.

Accepted abstracts are shown at apsresp.org/archive/webinars/20201100/abstract-index.html and Q&A are shown for each symposium below.

Sponsored by
BioMérieux and BioFire

Respiratory Infections (Non-Tuberculous) Assembly Symposium
10 November 2020
12:00-13:45 (UTC+9)

"Achieving Better Diagnoses and Outcomes for Patients with Respiratory Infections, With or Without a Pandemic"

Chairs


Dr Yuanlin Song
Assembly Head

Dr Chieh-Liang Wu
Assembly Head-Elect

Dr Masaki Fujita
Assembly Deputy Head

Programme


  1. Dr Nakanishi
    Introduction
    by Dr Yoichi Nakanishi
    APSR President

  2. Dr Assad
    Achieving Better Diagnoses and Outcomes for Patients with Respiratory Infections, With or Without a Pandemic
    the AVM's main presentation, by Dr Tufik Assad, Medical Director Critical Care Unit, Williamson Medical Center, Franklin, USA

  3. Dr Jordan
    Comparison of CRB-65 and Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (QSOFA) in Predicting Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Admission and Mortality of Adult Patients with Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)
    by Dr Catherine Jordan, St. Luke's Medical Center, Manila, Philippines
    Winner of the Gold Award for this symposium

  4. Dr Imran
    Prevalence of COVID-19 in asymptomatic healthy residents of border quarantine facilities in district Khyber, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
    by Dr Muhammad Imran
    Institute of Hepatology, COVID-19 Hospital, Nishterabad, Peshawar, Pakistan
    Winner of a Silver Award for this symposium

  5. Dr Inamdar
    Correlation of Chest CT score with baseline SpO2 on room air and laboratory findings in COVID-19 patients
    by Dr Aniket Inamdar
    Samarpan Clinic, Omerga, India, India
    Winner of a Silver Award for this symposium

  6. Dr Ing
    Management of thoracic empyema in an Australian tertiary referral hospital: A 36-month retrospective study
    by Dr Matthew Ing
    Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia

  7. Dr Santony
    The effect of pulmonary rehabilitation toward duration of hospitalization, il-6 levels, respiratory muscle power in hospitalized community pneumonia patients
    by Dr Santony
    Department of Respiratory and Sleep Pekanbaru, Brawijaya University, Indonesia
  8. Summary
    by the APSR Respiratory Infections (Non-Tuberculous) Assembly leaders
    Dr Yuanlin Song, Assembly Head
    Dr Chieh-Liang Wu, Assembly Head-Elect
    Dr Masaki Fujita, Assembly Deputy Head

Q&A.

Sponsored by
Orient EuroPharma

Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly Symposium
21 November 2020
16:00-17:45 (UTC+9)

"Exploring the Small Airway Disease"

Chairs


Dr Hajime Kurosawa
Assembly Head

Dr Greg King
Assembly Head-Elect

Dr Tsuyoshi Oguma
Assembly Deputy Head

Programme


  1. Dr Nakanishi
    Introduction
    by Dr Yoichi Nakanishi
    APSR President

  2. Prof. Papi
    Exploring The Small Airway Disease
    the AVM's main presentation, by Prof. Alberto Papi, St. Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy

  3. Dr Tanabe
    Disproportionally impaired diffusion capacity relative to airflow limitation in COPD
    by Dr Naoya Tanabe
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
    Winner of a Silver Award for this symposium

  4. Dr Handa
    Quantitative Analysis of Chest Computed Tomography in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Parenchymal Analysis on a Regional Basis
    by Dr Tomohiro Handa
    Department of Advanced Medicine for Respiratory Failure / Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
    Winner of a Silver Award for this symposium

  5. Dr Sim
    Investigation of airway oscillometry indices in post-lung transplantation: a cross-sectional assessment
    by Dr Joan P Y Sim
    St. Vincent's Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney, Australia
    Winner of the Gold Award for this symposium
  6. Summary
    by the APSR Respiratory Structure and Function Assembly leaders
    Dr Hajime Kurosawa, Assembly Head
    Dr Greg King, Assembly Head-Elect
    Dr Tsuyoshi Oguma, Assembly Deputy Head

Q&A.

Sponsored by
AstraZeneca

Asthma Assembly Symposium
28 November 2020
16:00-17:45 (UTC+9

"Asthma Paradoxes"

Chairs


Dr Kang-Yun Lee
Assembly Head

Dr Phuong Phan Thu
Assembly Head-Elect

Dr Shih-Lung Cheng
Assembly Deputy Head

Programme


  1. Dr Nakanishi
    Introduction
    by Dr Yoichi Nakanishi
    APSR President

  2. Prof. Wang
    The Risk of Short-Acting Beta-Agonist Over-reliance
    the AVM's main presentation, by Prof. Hao-Chien Wang, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan

  3. Dr Kan-o
    Incense smoke induces airway hyperresponsiveness, alterations of tight junction proteins and loss of airway epithelial barrier integrity via oxidative stress
    by Dr Keiko Kan-o
    Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
    Winner of the Gold Award for this symposium

  4. Dr Hirano
    Airway TNF-LIGHT expression and associated molecular inflammatory profiles in asthma patients with persistent airflow limitation
    by Dr Tsunahiko Hirano
    Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Japan
    Winner of a Silver Award for this symposium

  5. Dr Tashima
    Elevated serum free fatty acids may be a risk factor of adult onset asthma: Nagahama Study
    by Dr Noriyuki Tashima
    Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine Kyoto University, Japan
    Winner of a Silver Award for this symposium

  6. Dr Yasaratne
    Epidemiology of bronchial asthma during pregnancy: A cross-sectional study of pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at Teaching Hospital Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
    by Dr Duminda Yasaratne
    Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
  7. Summary
    by the APSR Asthma Assembly leaders
    Dr Kang-Yun Lee, Assembly Head
    Dr Phuong Phan Thu, Assembly Head-Elect
    Dr Shih-Lung Cheng, Assembly Deputy Head

Q&A.