Thursday, 26 June 2025
8.00 – 8.45 am
Registration
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8.45 – 9.00 am
Welcome Remarks
Clemens Aigner, Course Director
Markus Müller, Rector, MedUni Vienna
Gabriela Kornek, Medical Manager, University Hospital Vienna
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9:00 - 11:00 am
Parenchymal issue: COPD
Chair: Clemens Aigner, Daniela Gompelmann,
Didier Schneiter
- Medical treatment in COPD IV
Claus Franz Vogelmeier - Bronchoscopic treatment with valves
Daniela Gompelmann - Innovative bronchoscopic approaches
Felix Herth - Lung volume reduction surgery
Alexis Slama - Pushing the limits in LVRS
Didier Schneiter - Transplantation for COPD – a matter of survival or QoL?
Alberto Benazzo
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11.00 – 11.30 am
Coffee break
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11.30 am – 12.50 pm
Parenchymal issue: ILD
Chair: Marco Idzko, Stefan Schwarz, Helmut Prosch
- Imaging in pulmonary fibrosis
Helmut Prosch - Novel treatments on the horizon?
Andreas Günther - ICU Diagnostics in patients with acute exacerbation
Thomas Staudinger - Lung transplantation in ILD – Allocation algorithms
Stefan Schwarz
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12.50 – 02.00 pm
Lunch break
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2.00 – 3.20 pm
Parenchymal issue: ARDS
Chair: Edda Tschernko, György Lang
- Preventing harm from ventilation in the failing lung
Mark J. Schultz - ECMO therapy in ARDS – the surgical perspective
Thomas Schweiger - Transplantation in ARDS – Lessons learned from COVID 19
György Lang
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3.20 – 4.20 pm
Pediatric Lung Failure
Chair: Edith Nachbaur, Zsolt Szepfalusi, Peter Faybik
- Lung failure in neonates
Gerald Schlager - Rare end stage lung disease in children
Caroline Hutter - Cystic Fibrosis and the Failing Lung
Edith Nachbaur
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4.20 – 4.40 pm
Pioneering Lung Transplantation
Chair: Clemens Aigner, Alberto Benazzo, Peter Jaksch
- Building up lung transplantation in Vienna
Walter Klepetko - Current challenges and solutions in establishing lung transplantation in Serbia
Maja Ercegovac