The acute right heart syndrome in the intensive care unit: a hidden world?

Symposium
Chairs: N. Galie (Bologna, Italy), G. Domenighetti (Locarno, Switzerland)
Aims: The aims of this session are to:
- present and discuss a considered frequent and complex syndrome with unknown epidemiological data, presenting strong connections between the heart and lung
- discuss the conditions associated with an acute right ventricular overload
- present the diagnostic strategies and the therapeutical options, in particular the ventilatory strategies to be used in a patient with an acute right heart syndrome

Pulmonary hypertension and the acute righ heart syndrome in the intensive care unit: an overview O. Sitbon (Clamart, France)
Physiopathology of the acute right heart syndrome R. Naeije (Brussels, Belgium)
Diagnostic strategies applied to ventilated patients with an acute right heart syndrome A. Vieillard-Baron (Boulogne, France)
Which treatment for which patient with an acute exacerbation of pulmonary hypertension? M. Maggiorini (Zurich, Switzerland)