Clinical characteristics of patients with pulmonary hypertension

Poster Discussion
Chairs: G. Simonneau (Clamart, France), P. Corris (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom)

Right ventricular dyssynchrony measured using speckle tracking strain as a predictive factor in pulmonary hypertension patients B. Lamia, L. C. Molano, C. Viacroze, A. Cuvelier, J. F. Muir (Rouen, France)
Clinical evaluation of RV wall stress in pulmonary arterial hypertension: A follow-up study using magnetic resonance imaging S. A. Dusoswa, M. C. van de Veerdonk, T. Kind, J. T. Marcus, N. Westerhof, A. Vonk-Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ventilation perfusion lung scan in pulmonary veno-occlusive disease A. Seferian, B. Helal, X. Jaïs, B. Girerd, S. Günther, L. Savale, P. Dorfmüller, A. Huertas, O. Sitbon, M. Humbert, G. Simonneau, D. Montani (Clamart, Le Plessis Robinson, France)
Current practice for determining pulmonary capillary wedge pressure predisposes to serious errors in the classification of patients with pulmonary hypertension J. Ryan, J. Rich, T. Thiruvoipati, G. Kim, S. Rich (Chicago, United States Of America)
Increased renin-angiotensin-aldosteron system activity in lungs of patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension F. S. de Man, C. Guignabert, L. Tu, C. Francois, G. Simmoneau, E. Fadel, M. Humbert, A. Vonk-Noordegraaf, S. Eddahibi (Le Plessis-Robinson, France; Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Changes in right ventricular mass are unrelated to changes in pulmonary pressures in pulmonary arterial hypertension M. van de Veerdonk, S. Dusoswa, T. Kind, J. Marcus, N. Westerhof, A. Vonk-Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Systemic hypoxia contributes to pulmonary hypertension in heart failure B. Taylor, C. Mojica, T. Olson, P. Woods, B. Johnson (Rochester, United States Of America)
Atrial arrhythmias in pulmonary hypertension R. Turner, J. Hurdman, M. Menon, C. Elliot, D. Kiely, R. Condliffe (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Estimation of right ventricular isovolumic pressure in experimental pulmonary hypertension from a single ejecting beat T. Kind, G. Ruiter, T. J. C. Faes, L. M. Handoko, I. Schalij, A. Vonk Noordegraaf, N. Westerhof (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Contribution of increased afterload to right ventricular ejection fraction in pulmonary hypertension S. Hoette, N. Creuze, D. Musset, D. Montani, F. Parent, D. O‘Callaghan, A. Seferian, O. Sitbon, G. Simonneau, M. Humbert, D. Chemla (Clamart, France)
Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and idiopathic pulmonary hypertension are the conditions predisposing to non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease (NTMLD) M. Szturmowicz, E. Wilinska, K. Oniszh, E. Augustynowicz-Kopec, A. Zabost, M. Kurzyna, A. Fijalkowska, J. Kober, J. Zylkowska, M. Florczyk, A. Torbicki (Warsaw, Poland)
Circulating fibrocytes in pulmonary arterial hypertension N. Gambaryan, M. David, G. Barbara, H. Alice, S. Cohen-Kaminsky, H. Marc, F. Perros (Kremlin-Bicêtre, Le Plessis-Robinson, Clamart, France)
Role of mast cells and chymase in pulmonary vascular remodeling B. K. Dahal, D. Kosanovic, J. Messinger, Y. Fischer, K. Hoffmann, J. Antel, B. Husen, N. Hanke, S. Mayet, H. A. Ghofrani, N. Weissmann, F. Grimminger, W. Seeger, R. Schermuly (Giessen, Hannover, Bad Nauheim, Germany)
Frequency and impact on prognosis of signs of pulmonary veno-occlusive disease on high resolution computed tomography in patients with scleroderma associated pulmonary arterial hypertension S. Günther, S. Maitre, A. Berezne, X. Jaïs, A. Seferian, O. Sitbon, G. Simonneau, L. Mouthon, M. Humbert, D. Montani (Clamart, Paris, France)
How does variation of the bag volume in inert gas rebreathing cardiac output measurements influence the reproducibility in patients with pulmonary diseases? F. Trinkmann, F. Kraus, M. Borggrefe, J. J. Kaden, J. Saur (Mannheim, Germany)
Characteristics of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with congenital heart disease in the French PAH registry X. Jais, D. Bonnet, L. Rottat, I. Szezepanski, M. Lévy, V. Gressin, M. Humbert, O. Sitbon, G. Simonneau (Clamart, Paris, France)
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in the elderly: Data from the French registry F. Lador, O. Sitbon, A. Yaïci, E. Bergot, V. Cottin, L. Rottat, V. Gressin, M. Humbert, G. Simonneau (Clamart, Caen, Lyon, Paris, France; Geneva, Switzerland)
Assessment of operability by means of CTPA and perfusion SPECT in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension A. Grgic, F. Miodek, C. Frantz, A. Buecker, F. Khreish, M. Boehm, H. J. Schaefers, R. Bals, C. M. Kirsch, H. Wilkens (Homburg, Germany)