FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT!
IV International Consensus Conference on NASAL POLYPOSIS 2006
5th to 7th of May 2006, Moscow, Russia
Scientific Secretariat: prof. Andrey Lopatin e-mail:asl@cch.pmc.ru
Travel arrangement: Ludmila Poluyanova e-mail:medicinet@mail.ru
TOPICS:
Epidemiology: Prevalence in general population, asthmatics and atopic patients
Pathogenesis and microbiology: Cells, mediators, eicosanoids, vascular permeability, the role of IgE-mediated allergy, fungal and bacterial superantigen hypotheses
Natural history: The links between nasal polyposis, asthma, allergy, chronic sinusitis and other comorbidities
Classification and staging: Solitary and multiple reccurent polyps, eosinophilic fungal rhinosinusitis: same disease?
Present and future medical therapy: Systemic and topical corticosteroids, macrolides, aspirin therapy, topical and systemic antifungals, furosemide inhalations, immunotherapy, antileukotriens, anti-IL-5, cytokine-modulators: evidence based evaluation drug delivery systems
Surgical therapy: Limited or radical, shavers, lasers and intraoperative navigation, long term results, postoperative healing and recurrence, surgery for antrochoanal polyps, diffuse polyposis, cystic fibrosis etc...
Mark your congress calender and join experts in 2006!
