Lietuvos pulmonologų ir alergologų draugijos interneto svetainė

09:00 – 12:30 Morning session
Chairmen: Skaidrius Miliauskas, Andris Skride, Ly Anton

10:00 – 10:15 Opening ceremony
Rimantas Benetis (Rector of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)

10:15 – 10:35 Pulmonary hypertension: insights to the current situation and the future. Marc Humbert (France)
10:35 – 10:55 Right ventricle: all that matters in pulmonary hypertension. Anton vonk Noordegraaf (The Netherlands)
10:55 – 11:15 Echocardiography in pulmonary hypertension: old and new technologies. Egle Ereminiene (Lithuania)

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 11.50 Right heart catheterization- pitfalls and challenges. Ainars Rudzitis (Latvia)
11:50 – 12:10 Pulmonary arterial hypertension in connective tissue diseases. Alan Altraja (Estonia)
12:10 – 12:30 Pulmonary artery hypertension in congenital heart diseases. Lina Gumbiene (Lithuania)

12:30 – 13:00 Training session: Tips and tricks in imaging your patient with PH – echocardiography/chest CT.
Paulius Bucius, Lina Padervinskiene

13:00 – 14:00 Scientific abstract session and lunch:
chairmen: Anton vonk Noordegraaf and Deimante Hoppenot

14:00 – 17:00 Afternoon session:
Chairmen: Alan Altraja, Ainars Rudzitis, Lina Gumbiene

14:00 – 14:20 Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: state of the art. Marcin Kurzyna (Poland)
14:20 – 14:40 Pulmonary hypertension in pulmonary diseases: can we help our patients? Skaidrius Miliauskas (Lithuania)
14:40 – 15:00 Combined pre- and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension. Andris Skride (Latvia)
15:00 – 15:20 Intensive treatment of right ventricle failure. Ly Anton (Estonia)

15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 – 16:00 Controversies of pulmonary hypertension in left heart diseases. Egle Grigoniene (Lithuania)
16:00 – 16:20 Challenging cases of pulmonary hypertension. Deimante Hoppenot (Lithuania)

16:20 – 17:00 Q@A discussion and announcement of the best abstracts

18:00 Networking and closing of the event