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Report on The First European Congress of paediatric otolaryngology in Warsaw
International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, @ Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press
2 (1980)
171-174
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CONGRESS REPORT
REPORT ON THE FIRST EUROPEAN OTOLARYNGOLOGY IN WARSAW
CONGRESS
OF PAEDIATRIC
The First European Congress of Paediatric Otolaryngology, organized by the Polish Otolaryngological Society, was held on October 5-7, 1979, in the International Year of the Child. The Honorary Committee of the Congress included many outstanding representatives of medical science and administration: Professor Aleksander Zakrzewski and Teodor Palimaka, a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party; Professor B. Gomicki, Professor K. Boikowa, and Professor M. Goncerzewicz, paediatricians; Jerzy Majewski, the Mayor of Warsaw; Professor L. Zgliczynski, Rector of the Warsaw Medical Academy; A. Zupaiiski, representative of the pharmaceutical industry and Professor B. Dylewski, Senior of the Polish otolaryngologists. The Patron of the Congress was Professor Marian Sliwinski, Minister of Health and Social Welfare. The Chairman of the Scientific Committee was Associate Professor Jan Danielewicz, the President of the Section of Paediatric Otolaryngology of the Polish Otolaryngological Society. The organization of the Congress was the task of paediatric otolaryngologists from five Institutes of Paediatrics and 18 paediatric hospitals. The main topics of the Congress had been chosen after an inquiry in which 100 foreign clinical centres and the Polish otolaryngologists participated. The chosen topics were sinobronchial syndrome and laryngotracheal stenoses, their prevention and treatment. The sessions were held in the Polish, Russian, English, French and German languages. The Congress sessions were held in the halls of the Victoria Hotel in Warsaw. Three-hundred Polish physicians and 150 from foreign centres with accompanying persons participated in the Congress. They came from 26 countries, including 7 non-European ones: Australia, Algeria, Argentina, Jamaica, Japan, Puerto Rica and U.S.A. Apart from the Polish participants the European countries were represented by otolaryngologists from Belgium (2), Bulgaria (5), Czechoslovakia (3), Denmark (4), France (22), Finland (ll), The Netherlands (17), Yugoslavia (ll), Norway (2), German Democractic Republic (12), Federal Republic of Germany (8), Romania (2), Switzerland (2), Sweden (20), Hungary (5), Italy (ll), United Kingdom (5) and U.S.S.R. (3). The scientific programme comprised 175 papers, 30% of them written by Polish otolaryngologists.
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On the day preceding the Congress, October 4, an extraordinary session of the Section of Paediatric Otolaryngology of the Polish Otolaryngological Society was held with the participation of Congress guests. The topic of the session was an exchange of views and experiences between the representatives of various paediatric specialities. The session was held in the English and French languages. Papers were delivered by Professor ZapaSnik-Kobierska (paediatrician pulmonologist), Associate Professor Kossowska (otolaryngologist), Associate Professor Sieniawska (nephrologist), Professor Giiycka (surgeon), Dr. Marconi (anaesthesiologist), Dr. Iwanowska (dermatologist), Associate Professor Mar&ski (radiologist), Professor Chr&icki (cardiologist), Dr. Czachorowska (neurologist), Dr. Gatti Manacini (otorhinolaryngologist) and Professor Marini (neurosurgeon). During this session the participants were given a survey of the multidisciplinary Polish paediatrics and various forms of work in the individual disciplines. The participants came in a great number and expressed their interest and recognition with loud and prolonged applause. The official opening of the Congress took place on October 5 in the morning hours. Dr. Tadeusz Szelachowski, the Undersecretary of State, made an opening address and opened the Congress in the name of Professor Marian Sliwinski, Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Associate Professor E. Kossowska spoke for the Organization Committee, and for the Polish Otolaryngological Society a speech was delivered by Professor Henryk Czamecki, Deputy President of the Society. Dr. Gatti Manacini spoke as a representative of the European Otorhinolaryngologists. Associate Professor Jan Danielewicz, Chairman of the Section of Paediatric Otolaryngology of the Polish Otolaryngological Society then spoke on the professional and social activities of Carlo Gatti Manacini, and conferred upon him the title of Honorary Member of our Society. Associate Professor Rbiycka read a letter from Professor Ruben from New York as a representative of our colleagues from the U.S.A. After a short pause the plenary sessions began. The main problems of the sinobronchial syndrome were the topic of a round table discussion, with Associate Professor Kossowska as moderator and Professor ZapasnikKobierska (paediatrician), Associate Professor Danielewicz, Professor Crifo from Rome, Professor Cotton from Cincinnatti and J. Gutkowska (otolaryngologists) as participants. Then, lo-minute papers on sinobronchial syndrome were read. In the summarizing speech the moderator stressed the social importance of the very frequent sinobronchial syndrome impairing the health and the condition of the child and his parents. The practical conclusion drawn from the papers was that despite the widely used term sinobronchitis or sinobronchial syndrome, this nosological entity is one of the forms of nasal sinus disease with nocturnal cough as its characteristic feature. No bronchial changes are demonstrated in this syndrome on auscultation or during radiological examination. Ichimura from Japan put forward a hypothesis that bronchiolar changes coexist in this syndrome with nasal sinus lesions
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but that they are clinically silent. Crifo and others discussed the experiments on animals which .have shown the presence of biochemical defects in the ciliary structures. Such defects might play a role in the development of sinobronchial syndrome in children. The second day of the Congress was dedicated to laryngotracheal stenoses. Professor Pracy from London was moderator of the round table discussion with participation from Dr. Evans from London, Professor Cotton from Cincinnati, Associate Professor Hirschberg from Budapest, Professor Desnos from Angers and Professor Andrieu-Guitrancourt from Rouen. After a break, papers on the discussed problem were delivered. In the summarizing speech Professor Pracy stressed the importance of establishing correctly indications for intubation and tracheotomy as well as technically correctly performing these procedures, since this could play an essential role in preventing laryngotracheal stenosis. He also drew attention to the new methods of treating this complication discussed by the authors of the delivered papers. On the third day of the Congress sessions were held in four separate sections. The greatest number of papers were read during the session of the rhinological section (15). The other topics included audiology, rehabilitation of deaf children, oncology, otology and laryngeal diseases. On the second day of the Congress, in the afternoon, an organization session of the European Working Group was held in order to establish the authorities of the Group and to discuss tasks for the near future. The Congress was closed in the evening of October 7. The closing address was given by Professor Pracy, the newly elected President of the European Working Group in Paediatric Otolaryngology. He thanked the participants and the organizers of the Congress, and informed the audience about the plans of the Group for the near future. The proceedings of the Congress were prepared for publication by Associate Professor M. G&al&ma and they will be published in Polish as a sup plement to the periodical Otolaryngologia Polska. The subscribers will have the opportunity of studying in detail the papers read during the Congress without additional expense. This will be made possible owing to the help of the POLFA Pharmaceutical Works in Tarchomin. Some of these papers will also be published in English in the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. The costs of the organization of the Congress were paid by the participants in the Congress. Ten participants were invited at the cost of the Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Apart from participation in the sessions of the Congress the guests could see Warsaw and visit the otolaryngological hospital departments in the hospitals of the city. They visited the Department of Otorhinolaryngology in the hospital at the Nieklanska Street Children’s Health Centre in Miedzylesie and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Surgery, Medical Academy at Banach Street. Twenty-eight foreign participants visited the Depart-
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ment of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Paediatrics, Medical Academy, Litewska Street. In the evenings the participants had an opportunity to attend a concert of Chopin’s music in ielazowa Wola, the birthplace of this composer, and to enjoy a performance at the Warsaw Opera Theatre. Twenty participants also made an excursion after the Congress, visiting the Department of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Paediatrics, Medical Academy in Lublin, and the Department of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology in the Municipal Hospital in Chorzow. EWA KOSSOWSKA ul. Nowotki 26 m 46 00-201 Warszawa Poland
2 (1980)
171-174
171
CONGRESS REPORT
REPORT ON THE FIRST EUROPEAN OTOLARYNGOLOGY IN WARSAW
CONGRESS
OF PAEDIATRIC
The First European Congress of Paediatric Otolaryngology, organized by the Polish Otolaryngological Society, was held on October 5-7, 1979, in the International Year of the Child. The Honorary Committee of the Congress included many outstanding representatives of medical science and administration: Professor Aleksander Zakrzewski and Teodor Palimaka, a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers Party; Professor B. Gomicki, Professor K. Boikowa, and Professor M. Goncerzewicz, paediatricians; Jerzy Majewski, the Mayor of Warsaw; Professor L. Zgliczynski, Rector of the Warsaw Medical Academy; A. Zupaiiski, representative of the pharmaceutical industry and Professor B. Dylewski, Senior of the Polish otolaryngologists. The Patron of the Congress was Professor Marian Sliwinski, Minister of Health and Social Welfare. The Chairman of the Scientific Committee was Associate Professor Jan Danielewicz, the President of the Section of Paediatric Otolaryngology of the Polish Otolaryngological Society. The organization of the Congress was the task of paediatric otolaryngologists from five Institutes of Paediatrics and 18 paediatric hospitals. The main topics of the Congress had been chosen after an inquiry in which 100 foreign clinical centres and the Polish otolaryngologists participated. The chosen topics were sinobronchial syndrome and laryngotracheal stenoses, their prevention and treatment. The sessions were held in the Polish, Russian, English, French and German languages. The Congress sessions were held in the halls of the Victoria Hotel in Warsaw. Three-hundred Polish physicians and 150 from foreign centres with accompanying persons participated in the Congress. They came from 26 countries, including 7 non-European ones: Australia, Algeria, Argentina, Jamaica, Japan, Puerto Rica and U.S.A. Apart from the Polish participants the European countries were represented by otolaryngologists from Belgium (2), Bulgaria (5), Czechoslovakia (3), Denmark (4), France (22), Finland (ll), The Netherlands (17), Yugoslavia (ll), Norway (2), German Democractic Republic (12), Federal Republic of Germany (8), Romania (2), Switzerland (2), Sweden (20), Hungary (5), Italy (ll), United Kingdom (5) and U.S.S.R. (3). The scientific programme comprised 175 papers, 30% of them written by Polish otolaryngologists.
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On the day preceding the Congress, October 4, an extraordinary session of the Section of Paediatric Otolaryngology of the Polish Otolaryngological Society was held with the participation of Congress guests. The topic of the session was an exchange of views and experiences between the representatives of various paediatric specialities. The session was held in the English and French languages. Papers were delivered by Professor ZapaSnik-Kobierska (paediatrician pulmonologist), Associate Professor Kossowska (otolaryngologist), Associate Professor Sieniawska (nephrologist), Professor Giiycka (surgeon), Dr. Marconi (anaesthesiologist), Dr. Iwanowska (dermatologist), Associate Professor Mar&ski (radiologist), Professor Chr&icki (cardiologist), Dr. Czachorowska (neurologist), Dr. Gatti Manacini (otorhinolaryngologist) and Professor Marini (neurosurgeon). During this session the participants were given a survey of the multidisciplinary Polish paediatrics and various forms of work in the individual disciplines. The participants came in a great number and expressed their interest and recognition with loud and prolonged applause. The official opening of the Congress took place on October 5 in the morning hours. Dr. Tadeusz Szelachowski, the Undersecretary of State, made an opening address and opened the Congress in the name of Professor Marian Sliwinski, Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Associate Professor E. Kossowska spoke for the Organization Committee, and for the Polish Otolaryngological Society a speech was delivered by Professor Henryk Czamecki, Deputy President of the Society. Dr. Gatti Manacini spoke as a representative of the European Otorhinolaryngologists. Associate Professor Jan Danielewicz, Chairman of the Section of Paediatric Otolaryngology of the Polish Otolaryngological Society then spoke on the professional and social activities of Carlo Gatti Manacini, and conferred upon him the title of Honorary Member of our Society. Associate Professor Rbiycka read a letter from Professor Ruben from New York as a representative of our colleagues from the U.S.A. After a short pause the plenary sessions began. The main problems of the sinobronchial syndrome were the topic of a round table discussion, with Associate Professor Kossowska as moderator and Professor ZapasnikKobierska (paediatrician), Associate Professor Danielewicz, Professor Crifo from Rome, Professor Cotton from Cincinnatti and J. Gutkowska (otolaryngologists) as participants. Then, lo-minute papers on sinobronchial syndrome were read. In the summarizing speech the moderator stressed the social importance of the very frequent sinobronchial syndrome impairing the health and the condition of the child and his parents. The practical conclusion drawn from the papers was that despite the widely used term sinobronchitis or sinobronchial syndrome, this nosological entity is one of the forms of nasal sinus disease with nocturnal cough as its characteristic feature. No bronchial changes are demonstrated in this syndrome on auscultation or during radiological examination. Ichimura from Japan put forward a hypothesis that bronchiolar changes coexist in this syndrome with nasal sinus lesions
173
but that they are clinically silent. Crifo and others discussed the experiments on animals which .have shown the presence of biochemical defects in the ciliary structures. Such defects might play a role in the development of sinobronchial syndrome in children. The second day of the Congress was dedicated to laryngotracheal stenoses. Professor Pracy from London was moderator of the round table discussion with participation from Dr. Evans from London, Professor Cotton from Cincinnati, Associate Professor Hirschberg from Budapest, Professor Desnos from Angers and Professor Andrieu-Guitrancourt from Rouen. After a break, papers on the discussed problem were delivered. In the summarizing speech Professor Pracy stressed the importance of establishing correctly indications for intubation and tracheotomy as well as technically correctly performing these procedures, since this could play an essential role in preventing laryngotracheal stenosis. He also drew attention to the new methods of treating this complication discussed by the authors of the delivered papers. On the third day of the Congress sessions were held in four separate sections. The greatest number of papers were read during the session of the rhinological section (15). The other topics included audiology, rehabilitation of deaf children, oncology, otology and laryngeal diseases. On the second day of the Congress, in the afternoon, an organization session of the European Working Group was held in order to establish the authorities of the Group and to discuss tasks for the near future. The Congress was closed in the evening of October 7. The closing address was given by Professor Pracy, the newly elected President of the European Working Group in Paediatric Otolaryngology. He thanked the participants and the organizers of the Congress, and informed the audience about the plans of the Group for the near future. The proceedings of the Congress were prepared for publication by Associate Professor M. G&al&ma and they will be published in Polish as a sup plement to the periodical Otolaryngologia Polska. The subscribers will have the opportunity of studying in detail the papers read during the Congress without additional expense. This will be made possible owing to the help of the POLFA Pharmaceutical Works in Tarchomin. Some of these papers will also be published in English in the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. The costs of the organization of the Congress were paid by the participants in the Congress. Ten participants were invited at the cost of the Minister of Health and Social Welfare. Apart from participation in the sessions of the Congress the guests could see Warsaw and visit the otolaryngological hospital departments in the hospitals of the city. They visited the Department of Otorhinolaryngology in the hospital at the Nieklanska Street Children’s Health Centre in Miedzylesie and the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Surgery, Medical Academy at Banach Street. Twenty-eight foreign participants visited the Depart-
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ment of Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Paediatrics, Medical Academy, Litewska Street. In the evenings the participants had an opportunity to attend a concert of Chopin’s music in ielazowa Wola, the birthplace of this composer, and to enjoy a performance at the Warsaw Opera Theatre. Twenty participants also made an excursion after the Congress, visiting the Department of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology, Institute of Paediatrics, Medical Academy in Lublin, and the Department of Paediatric Otorhinolaryngology in the Municipal Hospital in Chorzow. EWA KOSSOWSKA ul. Nowotki 26 m 46 00-201 Warszawa Poland