Gillissen Adrian
St. George Medical Center, Robert-Koch-Hospital, Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2007 Apr;8(5):711-7. doi: 10.1517/14656566.8.5.711.
In pulmonary medicine, there are two major international meetings held annually: the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and that of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). The 2006 ERS Annual Congress was held in Munich, Germany. Both meetings provide an annual forum for scientists and clinical investigators from academia, non-university institutions (including private practices) and pharmaceutical companies to share information on many aspects of pulmonary and critical-care medicine, sleep disorders, pulmonary infectious diseases, malignancies of the chest, and numerous aspects of diagnostic and interventional procedures in these fields. With > 5000 abstracts and ~ 17,000 participants, the 2006 ERS-congress outnumbered even the 2006 ATS meeting. Research areas covered all aspects of pulmonary diseases, although this year (as in previous years) obstructive pulmonary diseases such as COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and asthma were clearly the main focus.
在肺病医学领域，每年会举办两场主要的国际会议：美国胸科学会（ATS）年会和欧洲呼吸学会（ERS）年会。2006年ERS年会在德国慕尼黑举行。这两场会议每年都为来自学术界、非大学机构（包括私人诊所）和制药公司的科学家及临床研究人员提供一个论坛，以分享有关肺病和重症医学、睡眠障碍、肺部传染病、胸部恶性肿瘤以及这些领域中众多诊断和介入程序方面的信息。2006年ERS年会有超过5000篇摘要和大约17000名参会者，甚至比2006年ATS会议的规模还要大。会议涵盖的研究领域包括肺病的各个方面，不过今年（和往年一样），诸如慢性阻塞性肺疾病（COPD）和哮喘等阻塞性肺病显然是主要焦点。
