PG19 - Pulmonary vascular disorders: diagnosis and treatment

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: O. C. Burghuber (Vienna, Austria), A. Torbicki (Warsaw, Poland)
Aims: This course will provide an update on the considerable clinically relevant advances made in recent years in the diagnosis and treatment of acute pulmonary embolism and pulmonary artery hypertension. At the end of the course participants will:
• have gained knowledge, derived from recent evidence-based literature, about altered diagnostic pathways and newly derived therapeutic options in the two most relevant pulmonary vascular disorders, venous thromboembolism and pulmonary artery hypertension;
• understand how these advances have changed daily clinical practice.

Venous thromboembolism: optimal diagnostic pathway in the light of new imaging tools A. Torbicki (Warsaw, Poland)
Venous thromboembolism: stage- and severity-adapted therapeutic modalities S. Konstantinides (Gottingen, Germany)
Pulmonary hypertension: pathophysiology and diagnosis M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium)
Pulmonary hypertension: new guidelines for therapy H. Olschewski (Graz, Austria)