Future perspectives on rare pulmonary diseases and rare presentations of common disorders

Rare pulmonary diseases and orphan drugs: where do we stand and where are we going to?

“…Furthermore, rare presentations of frequent lung diseases (e.g. rare thoracic cancers, severe asthma, and emphysema with α 1 -antitrypsin deficiency) and the most typical rare pulmonary diseases can share similar aspects, both in research and in their clinical management [4].…”

Rare (pulmonary) disease day: “feeding the breath, energy for life!”

“…Proceedings from past annual meetings and several selected reports from the 2013 meeting have previously been published in the European Respiratory Review (ERR) [37,38]. Some manuscripts from the 2015 conference will published in the ERR.…”

Toward better management of rare and orphan pulmonary diseases

“…Rare Disease Day takes place on the last day of February each year, and is held on the 29th, a rare day, in leap years and on the 28th in other years [10]. Proceedings from past annual meetings and several selected reports from the 2011 and 2013 meetings have previously been published in the ERR [17,18].…”