State of the art session: Pulmonary vascular diseases

Symposium
Chairs: M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium), L. Howard (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: to provide state-of-the-art knowledge of new therapeutic advances in acute and chronic conditions of the pulmonary circulation.

Ceremony of ERS Award for Lifetime Achievement in PAH M. Delcroix (Leuven, Belgium)
Lessons learned from trials of anti-remodelling drugs in pulmonary arterial hypertension H. Ghofrani (Gießen, Germany)
Systemic consequences of pulmonary arterial hypertension H. Bogaard (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Invasive treatment of intermediate-high-risk pulmonary embolism D. Jiménez Castro (Madrid, Spain)
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension I. Lang (Wien, Austria)