PG9 Diagnosing pulmonary hypertension: what a pneumologist should know

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: M. Lichtblau (Zürich, Switzerland), M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium), L. Bouman (Netherlands)
Aims: to explain how to correctly diagnose pulmonary hypertension via a stepwise approach, how to perform the diagnostic tests in the correct order, how to interpret the radiology results correctly and how to perform and interpret right heart catheterisation data correctly; to describe the right heart physiology and explain how to interpret right heart parameters correctly; to explain how to apply this knowledge using interactive cases.

The diagnostic algorithm in pulmonary hypertension D. Kiely (Sheffield (South Yorkshire), United Kingdom)
The radiology of pulmonary hypertension D. Gopalan (LONDON, United Kingdom)
Correctly performing right heart catheterisation and interpreting the data G. Kovacs (Graz, Austria)
Evaluation of right ventricular function A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Interactive cases A. Boucly (Le Kremlin Bicètre, France), M. Jevnikar (Paris, France)