Webinar presentations: Autoantibodies as the cause of PAH; Prevalence and effect of myelofibrosis on PAH; Mast cells as the cause of pulmonary vascular remodelling in PAH; B-cell depletion with rituximab for the treatment of systemic sclerosis-associated PH; Emergency myelopoiesis contributes to immune cell exhaustion in pulmonary vascular remodelling
Webinar presentations: Therapeutic efficacy and mechanisms of Drpitor1a in PAH; SNPs for sirtuin3 and uncoupling protein2 are causal of PAH and diabetes disease severity; Mitochondrial control of metabolic, angiogenic, and hematopoietic function in PH onset and progression; Heteroplasmy of wild-type mitochondrial DNA variants causes metabolic heart disease with PH.
Webinar presentations: Update on the Human Lung RNAseq Atlas, Nathan Salomonis, USA; Unsupervised transcriptomic profiling of whole blood shows biologic heterogeneity in iPAH, Allan Lawrie, England; Cellular landscape atlas of pulmonary endarterectomy tissue using single cell RNAseq, Peiran Yang, China; Single cell RNAseq identifies cellular abnormalities in rodent models of PH, Jason Hong, USA.
Webinar presentations: Mechanosensitive cation channels in the pulmonary vascular wall in PAH; Proton exchangers in pulmonary smooth muscle cells in PAH; Pathophysiologic role of mutant potassium channels in pulmonary hypertension; TRPV4 activity in lung microvascular endothelial cells in PAH
Webinar presentations: Clinical challenges in developing drug therapies for children with PH, Challenges related to drug approval for children with PH – regulatory perspective, Challenges facing pharmaceuticals in drug development for paediatric PH, Utility of paediatric registries for the characterization of pulmonary hypertensive phenotypes.
Webinar presentations: Pro-con: All patients should have balloon pulmonary angioplasty before being referred for pulmonary endarterectomy, Hiromi Matsubara (PRO) & Marcin Kurzyna (CON); Pro-con: Pulmonary hypertension recurs after pulmonary endarterectomy in most patients, Irene Lang (PRO) & Timothy Fernandes (CON)
Webinar presentations: Improving accuracy in prognosis in PAH Prognostic Scoring Systems – REVEAL 2.0 onwards, Raymond Benza; Integration of mutational profile into PAH Risk Calculators for better assessment of prognosis, Eric Austin; Integration of biomarkers into PAH Risk Calculators for better assessment of prognosis, Anna Hemnes
Webinar presentations: Genetics of pulmonary arterial hypertension: What we can learn by studying children with and without congenital heart disease, Wendy Chung, Therapeutic options in advanced PVD: Potts shunt versus lung transplantation, Mark Grady, Stem cells and Regenerative Medicine for Neonatal Lung Disease: implications for COPD, Bernard Thebaud, Assessment of operability in patients with congenital heart disease and PAH: Fallacies and pitfalls, Erika B. Rosenzweig, The impact of chronic pulmonary hypertension on ventricular function in extremely premature infants, Gabriela de Carvalho Nunes, Improving guidance for the correctability of congenital cardiovascular shunts with increased pulmonary vascular resistance, Ronald Day