Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Updated Recommendations of the Cologne Consensus Conference 2011

H. Ardeschir Ghofrani; Oliver Distler; Felix Gerhardt; Matthias Gorenflo; Ekkehard Grünig; Walter E. Haefeli; Matthias Held; Marius M. Hoeper; Christian M. Kähler; Harald Kaemmerer; Hans Klose; Volker Köllner; Bruno Kopp; Siegrun Mebus; Andreas Meyer; Oliver Miera; David Pittrow; Gabriela Riemekasten; Stephan Rosenkranz; Dietmar Schranz; Robert Voswinckel; Horst Olschewski

doi:10.1016/S0167-5273(11)70490-9

Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Updated Recommendations of the Cologne Consensus Conference 2011

H. Ardeschir Ghofrani^*, Oliver Distler, Felix Gerhardt, Matthias Gorenflo, Ekkehard Grünig, Walter E. Haefeli, Matthias Held, Marius M. Hoeper, Christian M. Kähler, Harald Kaemmerer, Hans Klose, Volker Köllner, Bruno Kopp, Siegrun Mebus, Andreas Meyer, Oliver Miera, David Pittrow, Gabriela Riemekasten, Stephan Rosenkranz, Dietmar SchranzRobert Voswinckel, Horst Olschewski

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The 2009 European Guidelines on Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension have been adopted for Germany. The guidelines contain detailed recommendations on the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension (PH). However, the practical implementation of the European Guidelines in Germany requires the consideration of several country-specific issues and already existing novel data. This requires a detailed commentary to the guidelines, and in some aspects an update already appears necessary. In June 2010, a Consensus Conference organized by the PH working groups of the German Society of Cardiology (DGK), the German Society of Respiratory Medicine (DGP) and the German Society of Pediatric Cardiology (DGPK) was held in Cologne, Germany. This conference aimed to solve practical and controversial issues surrounding the implementation of the European Guidelines in Germany. To this end, a number of working groups was initiated, one of which was specifically dedicated to the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This commentary describes in detail the results and recommendations of the working group on treatment of PAH which were last updated in October 2011.

Original language	English
Journal	International Journal of Cardiology
Volume	154
Issue number	SUPPL. 1
Pages (from-to)	S20-S33
ISSN	0167-5273
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-5273(11)70490-9
Publication status	Published - 12.2011

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Ghofrani, H. A., Distler, O., Gerhardt, F., Gorenflo, M., Grünig, E., Haefeli, W. E., Held, M., Hoeper, M. M., Kähler, C. M., Kaemmerer, H., Klose, H., Köllner, V., Kopp, B., Mebus, S., Meyer, A., Miera, O., Pittrow, D., Riemekasten, G., Rosenkranz, S., ... Olschewski, H. (2011). Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Updated Recommendations of the Cologne Consensus Conference 2011. International Journal of Cardiology, 154(SUPPL. 1), S20-S33. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-5273(11)70490-9

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