Classification History

1973
The 1st WHO meeting in Geneva 1973 on pulmonary hypertension proposed a classification based primarily on pathological grounds, namely "Plexogenic Pulmonary Arteriopathy", "Thrombotic Pulmonary Arteriopathy" and "Pulmonary Venous Occlusive Arteriopathy". Clinically the disorders often were classified as primary or secondary. Duringe the next decade it became clear, that the histopathologic features were not specific for the proposed disease entities.

1998
At the 2nd WHO symposium in Evian 1998, a diagnostic classification of various forms of pulmonary hypertension was proposed:

 

      
 
  1. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, including Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH, sporadic or familial) and PAH related to risk factors
  2. Pulmonary Venous Hypertension including left-sided heart disease, extrinsic compression of central pulmonary veins and pulmonary veno-occlusive disease
  3. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Disorders of the Respiratory System and/or Hypoxemia
  4. Pulmonary Hypertension due to Chronic Thrombotic and/or Embolic Disease
  5. Pulmonary Hypertension due to Disorders Directly Affecting the Pulmonary Vasculature

2003
The recent 3rd World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension in Venice, June 23rd-25th, 2003 has provided the opportunity to evaluate the impact and usefulness of the Evian classification, and to propose modifications.

see "New classification for pulmonare arterial hypertension"

see "Diagnostic classification"
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SGPH-Symposium, 2. September 2010, Hotel Bristol in Genf:
"Hypertension artérielle pulmonaire: Comment ne pas passer à côté d’une maladie émergente?"  Mehr

 

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Vereinsgründung:

Schweizer PH-Verein für Menschen mit pulmonaler Hypertonie gegründet. Pressemitteilung PDF

Next SSPH Workshop: October 28th, 2010
Haus der Universität in Berne, details will follow.

SSPH Workshop 2010: May 7-8, 2010

The SSPH workshop on May 7-8, 2010 in Lucerne did consist of an update of the website with the following topics:

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
  • Follow-up
  • Patients part

Many thanks to all the participants: The workshop from 7-8 May 2010 was a succesfull event, a lot of precious work has been done. Adaptations of the website content will soon be online.

 

4th international Congress of the SSPH

October 30 - 31, 2009



Link to the congress presentations as video streaming on swiss-webconferencing.ch .

Link to the congress photo-gallery

 

 



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