Faculty
P. Argiento
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di
Napoli, AORN Azienda Ospedaliera
dei Colli, Monaldi Napoli
M. Beghetti
University Hospital of Geneva,
Switzerland
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
J.G. Coghlan
MD FRCP, Pulmonary Hypertension
Lead Royal Free Hospital
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
N. Galiè
Istituto di Cardiologia, Università di
Bologna
S. Ghio
Cardiologia, Fondazione IRCCS
Policlinico S. Matteo, Pavia
I. Lang
Medical University of Vienna,
Internal Medicine II, Cardiology,
Vienna
A. Manes
Istituto di Cardiologia, Università di
Bologna
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
Scottish Pulmonary Vascular Unit,
Golden Jubilee National Hospital,
Glasgow
E. Romeo
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di
Napoli, AORN Azienda Ospedaliera
dei Colli, Monaldi Napoli
L.J. Rubin
Pulmonary Medicine, Professor
Emeritus, University of California,
San Diego Medical School
M.G. Russo
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di
Napoli, AORN Azienda Ospedaliera
dei Colli, Monaldi Napoli
B. Sarubbi
Cardiologia, Seconda Università di
Napoli, AORN Azienda Ospedaliera
dei Colli, Monaldi Napoli
M. Sofia
Pneumologia, Università Federico II,
AORN Azienda Ospedaliera
dei Colli, Monaldi Napoli
G. Valentini
Reumatologia, Seconda Università di
Napoli
P. Vitulo
Unità di Malattie Polmonari, IsMeTT,
Palermo
D. Vizza
Cardiologia, Università La Sapienza,
Roma
A. Vonk Noordegraaf
Pulmonary medicine Vrije
Universiteit Medical Center
Amsterdam
Official languages: Italian - English
Scientific Committee
Michele D’Alto, Berardo Sarubbi, Emanuele Romeo, Paola Argiento
Organizing secretariat
Via del Parco Margherita 49/3 - 80121 Napoli
Phone +39 081402093 - Fax +39 0810606133
[email protected] - www.defla.it
E.C.M. - Continuing Medical Education
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 56498)
The conference is for 90 participants.
Registration
Congress Registration Fee: € 500,00 + VAT (€ 605,00)
Fee includes: Congress kit • Coffee breaks • Light lunches • ECM •
Certificate of participation • Social dinner
Please check the availability by calling the organizing secretariat at 0039 081
402093, before to pay the registration fare.
Payment
Payment can be made by: BANK TRANSFER bank account no. 1268164
headed to: DEFLA di Claudia Fortunato - Banca della Campania - Agency 4
Naples (Italy) - IBAN code: IT 36 T 05392 03404 000001268164
Con il contributo non condizionante di
CAPRI
May 3/4, 2013
Hotel La Palma
Presidents
Raffaele Calabrò
Maria Giovanna Russo
Director
Michele D’Alto
Friday May 3, 2013
08.45 Welcome
R. Calabrò, M.G. Russo
09.00 Looking beyond the scene: what the patients want
V. Vivenzio
09.15 Introduction and objectives
M. D’Alto
12.30 Do we use too late prostanoids for PAH?
D. Vizza
13.00 Caveat and pitfalls of right heart catheterizations for PAH
J.G. Coghlan
13.30 Work lunch
Congenital heart diseases and PAH
Epidemiology, pathophysiology and
clinical approach to PH
Chairmen: N. Galiè, L. Rubin
09.30 Classification and epidemiology
A. Manes
10.00 Right ventricle and pulmonary circulation: how do they work, why
do they fail
A. Vonk Noordergraaf
10.30 Diagnostic algorithm: how to achieve a better definition of the
disease
A. Peacock
Chairmen: B. Sarubbi, M. Beghetti
15.00 PAH in pediatric age: need for new definition?
M. Beghetti
15.30 Congenital heart disease - related PAH: new and old problems
E. Romeo
16.00 Border-line haemodynamics in CHD: to close or not to close? The
lesson from the past
M. D’Alto
16.30 Pregnancy and congenital heart diseases
K. Dimopoulos
17.00 End of the session
11.00 Therapy for PAH: emerging news after the world PH meeting
N. Galiè
21.00 Social dinner
11.30 Coffee break
Saturday May 4, 2013
Clinical arena session
Chairmen: A. Peacock, A. Vonk Noordegraaf
12.00 Exercise tests for pulmonary vascular disease early detection:
tool or toy?
R. Naeije
Emerging issues in PAH
Chairmen: R. Naeije, M. Sofia
09.00 Connective tissue disease and pulmonary hypertension
G. Valentini
09.30 The meaning of out-of-proportion lung disease-PH
S. Gaine
10.00 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: ever suitable
for surgery?
A.M. D’Armini
10.30 Altitude, hypoxia and PAH
P. Argiento
11.00 Coffee break
Unmet needs in PAH. What we are
expecting from new guidelines?
Chairmen: E. Bossone, M. D’Alto
11.30 Pulmonary hypertension in left heart diseases: marker of outcome
or target of therapy?
S. Ghio
12.00 Non-pharmacological therapy for PAH: are atrial septostomy and
lung transplantation underutilized?
P. Vitulo
12.30 Novel targets and emerging therapies for PAH
I. Lang
13.00 The rise of knowledge in pulmonary hypertension between past
and future
L. Rubin
13.30 Closing remarks
M. D’Alto
13.40 Quiz ECM
14.00 Buffet lunch