In the latest in a series of Congress articles featured in ERJ Open Research, our open-access peer-reviewed respiratory journal, 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 that were presented at the ERS International Congress 2018, Paris.
The article includes a number of sections which cover the wide range of aspects and issues that feature in paediatric respiratory care, including:
- Prematurity and lung disease
- Molecular and cellular determinants of the developing lung
- Paediatric asthma: prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- Insights into respiratory disease from epidemiological studies
- Paediatric respiratory infections: translational and clinical perspectives
- CF: diagnosis, monitoring, microbiological aspects and new treatments
- Recent advances in primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD)
- New ideas about respiratory and sleep physiology in children