Invited Speaker

Medical Treatment of PAH and the Role of Lung Transplantation in 2010
Antonio Roman
Spain


Medical treatment of PAH has improved in the last decade. More than 25 clinical trials have demonstrated the efficacy of the today available drugs. In the near future, some new insights will come from combined therapy that will be the on going research objective. All of this very important effort does not mean that PAH will be cured in the next decade. So we still must be concerned about the role of lung transplantation for this disease.

I am going to present the update in clinical trials results, some changes in the design of these studies and, finally, some aspects of lung transplantation in PAH. Regarding lung transplantation, it is important to consider time of referral, time of transplantation and the lung allocation system that will influence results. All of these aspects will be revisited.