on Pulmonary Hypertension

Faculty
P. Argiento
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli,
Monaldi Napoli
E. Bossone
Cardiologia, S. Maria Incoronata dell’Olmo,
Cava dei Tirreni
R. Calabrò
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli,
Monaldi Napoli
M. D’Alto
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli,
Monaldi Napoli
A.M. D’Armini
Cardiochirurgia, Università di Pavia,
Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico S. Matteo
K. Dimopoulos
Royal Brompton Hospital, London
S. Gaine
National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit,
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital,
Dublin
S. Ghio
Cardiologia, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico
S. Matteo, Pavia
M. Guazzi
U.O. Insufficienza Cardiaca e Cardiomiopatie,
IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato
Milanese Pavia
E. Grünig
Cardiology and Pneumology, University
Hospital, Heidelberg
I. Lang
Medical University of Vienna, Internal
Medicine II, Cardiology, Vienna
W. Li
Adult Congenital Heart Disease and
Echocardiography, Royal Brompton Hospital,
London
General informations
R. Naeije
Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of
Medicine of the Free University of Brussels
- Cardiothoracic Departmennt, Erasme
University Hospital, Free University of
Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
A. Peacock
Official languages: Italian - English
Scientific Committee
Michele D’Alto, Berardo Sarubbi, Emanuele Romeo, Paola Argiento
Organizing secretariat
Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit, Golden
Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow
Via del Parco Margherita 49/3 - 80121 Napoli
Phone +39 081402093 - Fax +39 0810606133
[email protected] - www.defla.it
E. Romeo
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli,
Monaldi Napoli
E.C.M. - Continuing Medical Education
Emeritus Professor of Medicine Emeritus
Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Division University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine
The event is included in the Continuing Medical Education Program of Italian
Ministry of Health, and it will be strictly following the rules of the Ministerial
Regulation (www.agenas.it), Provider: Samnium Medica soc. Coop. ID 1376.
The ECM credits will be provided to specialists in Cardiology, Cardiac surgery,
Respiratory diseases, Rheumatology, Internal medicine (code 120789)
M.G. Russo
CREDITS: 10
L.J. Rubin
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli,
Monaldi Napoli
Third Focus
on Pulmonary
Hypertension
May 1/2/3, 2015
Capri
Hotel La Palma
The conference is for 90 participants.
B. Sarubbi
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di Napoli,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli,
Monaldi Napoli
Presidents:
Raffaele Calabrò
Maria Giovanna Russo
G. Simonneau
Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine,
Hôpital Kremlin Bicêtre, Paris Sud University,
Paris
Director:
Michele D’Alto
O. Sitbon
Respiratory Medicine Professor at the South
Paris University, Paris
G. Valentini
Reumatologia, Seconda Università di Napoli
P. Vitulo
Unità di Malattie Polmonari, IsMeTT,
Palermo
D. Vizza
Cardiologia, Università La Sapienza, Roma
V. Vivenzio
Presidente AMIP Onlus
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How-to session: meet the experts
Chairmen: R. Naeije, A. Peacock
12.00 Echocardiography for the study of pulmonary circulation
S. Ghio
Friday May 1, 2015
12.30 Stress testing of the pulmonary circulation and the right heart
E. Grünig
19.00Registration
13.00 Right heart catheterization: pitfalls and caveat
E. Romeo
Welcome
R. Calabrò e M.G. Russo
13.30 Work lunch
Focus on congenital heart diseases and PH
Saturday May 2, 2015
09.00 Introduction and objectives
M. D’Alto
09.15 What the patients need
V. Vivenzio
Clinical approach to PH: what is changed after the 5th world
PH Congress
Chairmen: G. Simonneau, D. Vizza
Chairmen: B. Sarubbi, M.G. Russo
14.30 Multimodality imaging in CHD-PH
W. Li
09.30 Lung disease and PH: definition and therapy
P. Vitulo
10.00 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: diagnosis and treatment
strategies
A. D’Armini
15.00 Biventricular remodelling in idiopathic and CHD-PAH: differences and similarities
K. Dimopoulos
10.30 Pulmonary hypertension in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: how
to diagnose, how to treat
M. Guazzi
15.30 Advanced therapy for CHD-PAH
M. D’Alto
11.00 Coffee break
16.00 Complexity in paediatric PAH: learning from clinical cases
P. Argiento
Doubts and certainties in PH: a look beyond the scene
16.30 End 1st day
Chairmen: E. Bossone, M. D’Alto
21.00 Social dinner
11.30 Upfront combination therapy and early use of prostanoids: is an aggressive
strategy better?
D. Vizza
09.30 Epidemiology and new classification: news after the 5th world PH Congress
I. Lang
12.00 Translation from experimental models: how to improve?
A. Peacock
10.00 Diagnostic algorithm between new and old tools
S. Gaine
12.30 Rising the bar: future goals and endpoints in the treatment of PAH
L. Rubin
10.30 How to stratify prognosis in PAH?
O. Sitbon
11.00 Emerging evidences on PAH therapy: new drugs or new strategies?
G. Simonneau
11.30 Coffee break
Sunday May 3, 2015
Complexity in PAH
Chairmen: O. Sitbon, S. Ghio
09.00 Connective tissue disease and pulmonary hypertension
G. Valentini
13.00 Bedside diagnosis of heart failure: right, left or both?
R. Naeije
13.30 Closing remarks
M. D’Alto
13.45 Quiz ECM
14.00
Work lunch