This talk will focus on diaphragm in patients with neuromuscular disorders, long COVID, COPD and invasive ventilation.

The diaphragm as the lungs key muscle and its association with dyspnea and prognosis across different respiratory diseases.

Patients with slowly progressive neuromuscolar disorders in particular.

Focusing on COPD, Long COVID but also in invasive ventilation patients

Jens Spiesshoefer, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor (Privatdozent) of Respiratory Medicine and Binaya Regmi, MD: Jens graduated from medical school in 2016 with his MD thesis on sleep disordered breathing (group Professor Olaf Oldenburg) and completed a PhD program in translational medicine at Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna Pisa from 2019-2022 (group Professor Alberto Giannoni).