Abstract
The eight ESID Prague Spring meeting: traditionally small and active meeting attracted more than 30 participants from 9 countries. Since its launch in 2002 the Prague ESID meeting has been devoted to the exchange of information on primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) between Western and Central and Eastern Europe.
This tradition also continued this year. The international character of the meeting was further fostered by the attendance of two invited speakers from United States, representatives of ACAAI.
The invited speakers from Europe were Esther deVries who covered in her talk CVID in its milder forms, and Crina Samarghitan who, besides her scientific lecture, discusses also topics important for ESID junior working party of which she is the chair. The main and introductory topic of this year meeting was hyper IgE syndrome, at the borderline between allergy and immunopathology.
Other sections were devoted to other forms of PID, with the emphasis on B cell deficiencies and unusual case reports.