Breathing disorders and cardiovascular diseases

Respiratory medicine meets other disciplines
Chairs: O. Sitbon (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France), S. Rosenkranz (Köln, Germany)
Aims: To describe the need for intense collaboration among pneumologists, cardiologists and intensive care specialists for the proper care of patients with pulmonary hypertension.

Keeping the kidney and heart in balance: management of end-stage right heart failure L. Savale (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France)
Interventional treatment of pulmonary hypertension: where are we now? N. Galiè (Bologna (BO), Italy)
Journeys to high altitude: risks and recommendations for travellers with/without pre-existing cardiopulmonary conditions K. Bloch (Zurich, Switzerland)
ERS statement on chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium)