ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly

Laura Fabbri; Julien Guiot; Marie Vermant; Ewa Miądlikowska; Deborah Estrella; Marlies S Wijsenbeek; Wim Wuyts; Elena Bargagli; Antoine Froidure; Paolo Spagnolo; Marcel Veltkamp; Maria Molina-Molina; Cormac McCarthy; Katerina Antoniou; Michael Kreuter; Catharina C Moor

doi:10.1183/23120541.00839-2023

ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2024 Mar 25;10(2):00839-2023. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00839-2023. eCollection 2024 Mar.

Authors

Laura Fabbri^{1

2}, Julien Guiot^{3

4}, Marie Vermant⁵, Ewa Miądlikowska⁶, Deborah Estrella⁷, Marlies S Wijsenbeek⁸, Wim Wuyts⁵, Elena Bargagli⁹, Antoine Froidure¹⁰, Paolo Spagnolo¹¹, Marcel Veltkamp^{12

13}, Maria Molina-Molina¹⁴, Cormac McCarthy¹⁵, Katerina Antoniou¹⁶, Michael Kreuter¹⁷, Catharina C Moor⁸

Affiliations

¹ Margaret Turner Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Diseases, NHLI, Imperial College, London, UK.
² Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield Clinical Group, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
³ Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
⁴ GIGA I3 Research Group, Laboratory of Respiratory Medicine, Vascular and Interstitial Lung Disease Unit and Fibropole Research Group, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
⁵ Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), Department of Chronic Diseases and Metabolism, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Pneumology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
⁷ Hospital das Clínicas, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁸ Centre for Interstitial Lung Diseases and Sarcoidosis, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁹ Respiratory Diseases Unit, Department Medical Sciences, Surgery and Neurological Sciences, Siena University, Siena, Italy.
¹⁰ Pulmonology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
¹¹ Respiratory Disease Unit, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
¹² ILD Center of Excellence, Department of Pulmonology, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
¹³ Division of Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁴ ILD Unit, Respiratory Department, University Hospital of Bellvitge, IDIBELL, CIBERES, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁵ UCD School of Medicine, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁶ Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
¹⁷ Mainz Center for Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pneumology, ZfT, Mainz University Medical Center and Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Marienhaus Clinic Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Abstract

This article summarises a selection of scientific highlights in the field of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) presented at the International Congress of the European Respiratory Society in 2023. Translational and clinical studies focused on the whole spectrum of ILDs, from (ultra)rare ILDs to sarcoidosis, ILDs associated with connective tissue disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The main topics of the 2023 Congress presentations were improving the diagnostic process of ILDs, better prediction of disease course and investigation of novel treatment options.