Pediatric Pulmonology, Supplement 16:1 (1997)
Foreword It is a great privilege and pleasure for the guest editors to make a few introductory comments for this special issue of Pediatric Pulmonology which contains the most important papers and abstracts presented during the Second International Congress on Pediatric Pulmonology (CIPP II) in Nice in June 1996. Thanks to the contribution of numerous investigators and clinical authorities from all around the world, the organizing committee succeeded in offering a comprehensive program on pediatric respiratory disorders specifically intended for pediatric specialists. Recognizing the specificity of the pediatric patient as the starting point, the congress was an unique occasion to experience the continuum of pulmonary diseases from conception to birth and thereafter from infancy to childhood and adolescence. Of particular interest were the exchanges of information on developmental pathology and its long term effects, on genetic and environmental determinants of pulmonary diseases, on the natural history of allergy from atopic dermatitis to asthma, on respiratory consequences of congenital neuromuscular diseases, on the correlates between nutrition disorders and the lung. Respiratory infections were not only approached with presentation of new data in basic research, but allowed discussions between pediatric pulmonologists, intensive care pediatricians and general pediatricians caring for children in developed and in developing countries. Those valuable discussions allowed pediatricians from Asia, Africa and South America to present their data and share their experience with colleagues from Europe, North America, Japan and Oceania where access to medical information, diagnostic and therapeutic means are more developed and sophisticated.
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General sessions devoted to genetics, malformations, lung growth, major respiratory diseases as well as more specific sessions on bronchoscopy, lung function testing in infants and children, aerosol therapy using spacer devices, tumors, sudden infant death syndrome and respiratory control disorders in children deserve a particular applause. Finally the meeting succeeded in highlighting the correlations between different organs in the complex The spectrum of pediatric respiratory disorders. contributions of ENT specialists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, immunologists and allergists proved to be essential for a new approach, understanding and management of pulmonary diseases in infants and children. We hope that this Supplement will serve as a useful reference for those engaged in the daily problems of diagnostic and management of'· respiratory diseases in children .. '.· We' l~k forward to pursuing this exciting experience during CIPP III, to be held in Monaco, June 1998. .
-JEAN-PAUL PRAUD, MD PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology, Pulmonary Research Unit, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. -MICHAEL C. REINHARDT
Associate Pediatrician for Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Foreword It is a great privilege and pleasure for the guest editors to make a few introductory comments for this special issue of Pediatric Pulmonology which contains the most important papers and abstracts presented during the Second International Congress on Pediatric Pulmonology (CIPP II) in Nice in June 1996. Thanks to the contribution of numerous investigators and clinical authorities from all around the world, the organizing committee succeeded in offering a comprehensive program on pediatric respiratory disorders specifically intended for pediatric specialists. Recognizing the specificity of the pediatric patient as the starting point, the congress was an unique occasion to experience the continuum of pulmonary diseases from conception to birth and thereafter from infancy to childhood and adolescence. Of particular interest were the exchanges of information on developmental pathology and its long term effects, on genetic and environmental determinants of pulmonary diseases, on the natural history of allergy from atopic dermatitis to asthma, on respiratory consequences of congenital neuromuscular diseases, on the correlates between nutrition disorders and the lung. Respiratory infections were not only approached with presentation of new data in basic research, but allowed discussions between pediatric pulmonologists, intensive care pediatricians and general pediatricians caring for children in developed and in developing countries. Those valuable discussions allowed pediatricians from Asia, Africa and South America to present their data and share their experience with colleagues from Europe, North America, Japan and Oceania where access to medical information, diagnostic and therapeutic means are more developed and sophisticated.
C 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
General sessions devoted to genetics, malformations, lung growth, major respiratory diseases as well as more specific sessions on bronchoscopy, lung function testing in infants and children, aerosol therapy using spacer devices, tumors, sudden infant death syndrome and respiratory control disorders in children deserve a particular applause. Finally the meeting succeeded in highlighting the correlations between different organs in the complex The spectrum of pediatric respiratory disorders. contributions of ENT specialists, gastroenterologists, neurologists, psychiatrists, immunologists and allergists proved to be essential for a new approach, understanding and management of pulmonary diseases in infants and children. We hope that this Supplement will serve as a useful reference for those engaged in the daily problems of diagnostic and management of'· respiratory diseases in children .. '.· We' l~k forward to pursuing this exciting experience during CIPP III, to be held in Monaco, June 1998. .
-JEAN-PAUL PRAUD, MD PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology, Pulmonary Research Unit, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. -MICHAEL C. REINHARDT
Associate Pediatrician for Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
