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
Webinar presentations: Cancer induced PH: Embolism as a major inducer, Timothy Morris, Cancer induced PH: Microenvironmental cancer niche as a major inducer, Rajkumar Savai, Cancer therapies induced PH, Frédéric Perros, Cancer related signalling mechanisms underlying PH development, Olivier Boucherat, FOXO3: A new potential therapeutic target in pulmonary arterial hypertension, Yann Grobs, Non-invasive surrogate markers of PH are associated with poor survival in lung cancer patients, Michael Cekay
Webinar presentations: Age-dependent prevalence of PH in the general population, Harm Jan Bogaard, Senescence mechanisms and pulmonary vascular aging, Serge Adnot, Metabolic Syndrome and obesity leads to age-related PH, Imad Al Ghouleh, Genetics and epigenetics in age-related PH, Stephen Archer, Right heart catheterization is underused in elderly patients suspected of pulmonary hypertension, Samara Jansen
Reversal of PH by whole bone marrow transplantation in BMPR2 deficient mice, James West, Bone marrow dependency of cigarette smoke-induced PH versus emphysema, Norbert Weissmann, Homologous bone marrow transplantation prevents the development of PAH in patients with severe scleroderma, Jason Weatherald, Role of bone marrow in the right ventricle remodelling, Gaurav Choudhary
Webinar presentations: Ardeschir Ghofrani (PRO) vs Hiromi Matsubara (CON) on Riociguat should be given to all CTEPH patients, regardless of timing of PEA/BPA, Systematic follow-up of patients following acute pulmonary embolism is associated with an increased incidence of CTEPH and less severe disease, Charlotte Durrington, Women and CTEPH: The special meaning of BPA, Alejandro Cruz-Utrilla, G protein-coupled receptor expression from single cell RNA sequencing in CTEPH, Gayathri Viswanathan, Study of the antifibrotic action of JAK inhibitors for the prevention and treatment of CTEPH, Andrei Karpov, Unilateral chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease: Do they benefit from surgery? Farid Rashidi
