WASOG Conference 2022

🔥🔥𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 – “𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞” 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧!

Radu Crisan, Claudiu Iordache, Ionela Belaconi, Tudor Constantinescu and Daniel Traila presented their interesting cases and Irina Strâmbu, Ulrich Costabel, Daniel Trăilă discussed together all these cases.
We thank our chairs: Tudor Constantinescu and Dragos Bumbacea.

We end the WASOG Conference with satisfaction and the joy that we had the chance to meet in Romania and get updated with the latest news from our field.

🔸Systemic diseases and ILDs session started with 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐮 followed by 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 – 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 – 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐝 and their perspective on CTD-ILDs.
𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐧 introduced us to the subject of Antisynthetase syndrome.

Very comprehensive presentations with a lot of useful information.
Thank you Katerina Antoniou, Anna-Maria Hoffmann, Milena Man and our chairs: Ionela Belaconi and Athol Wells.

🗣Last day of WASOG Conference started with a session dedicated to ILDs and more.
𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 joined us online and talked about the Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis: on the verge of a breakthrough.
𝐓𝐮𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮 went on with a talk on ILDs and pulmonary hypertension.
Non-pharmacological treatments ILDs were revealed by 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐮 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬̦𝐚𝐧 and 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐬 𝐁𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐚 touched a very interesting subject, Lung transplant for ILDs.

The session was chaired by Daniel Trăilă and Antigona Trofor.

🎖𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐙𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐚 is our gold exhibitor at WASOG Conference.
We are grateful for the beautiful collaboration and thankful for the support they offered in the organization of the event.
Find out more about Astra Zeneca on 👉 https://www.astrazeneca.com/

🔸Second session of sarcoidosis of the day.
𝐃𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫 opened the discussion on Extrapulmonary sarcoidosis, followed by 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐦𝐚𝐧 with his two presentations: Diagnosis: when biopsy is not needed, New treatments in sarcoidosis.
Thank you all for this amazing day, see you tomorrow, starting with 8.30 am. 🤗

Pharma session - 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭 symposium with 𝐊𝐢𝐲𝐨𝐦𝐢 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢 and Robert Baughman from USA and their speech on the evaluation of an Anti-GM-CSF Monoclonal Antibody (Namilumab) in a Phase 2 Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Trial.
The session was chaired by 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮.

Thank you Kinevant for all the support and for being our gold partner!

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis session is on!🔥
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐳𝐢𝐚𝐫 -𝐕𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐯𝐚, an expert of HP, introduced us to the subject with her presentation "Practical approach to diagnosis and treatment of HP in the light of new guidelines."
𝐔𝐥𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥 joined us online and talked about BAL in HP (and other ILDs). 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐎𝐭̦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚 went on with her discussion on Occupational ILDs.

Poster discussion on sarcoidosis.

Poster discussion on sarcoidosis. 🖥

🔸Sarcoidosis session, on third day of WASOG Conference.
𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚̂𝐦𝐛𝐮 started the session talking about the New guidelines in sarcoidosis and was followed by 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐮𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐡 with his talk on CT patterns in sarcoidosis.
Last but not least, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐣𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 offered a very comprehensive speech on Impact and limitations of sarcoidosis.

See you after the lunch break with poster session.

🧬The day continued with Astra Zeneca Pharma Symposium about Re – evaluating mortality in COPD, performed by 𝐈𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚̂𝐦𝐛𝐮.
Thank you Astra Zeneca for the beautiful collaboration and for the support.