Tuesday December 2nd
Chairmen: Csaba Farsang, István Kiss 14.00 – 14.30 | Lecture: Risk factors in the Hungarian hypertensive patients Ede Kékes, Hungary |
14.30 – 15.00 | Lecture: Hypertension in women Renata Cifkova, Czech Republic |
15.00 – 15.15 | Discussion |
15.15 – 15.45 | Lecture: The patient with hypertension and diabetes Luis Martins, Portugal |
15.45 – 16.00 | Discussion |
16.00 – 16.30 | Presentation of a clinical case by a local expert:How to manage a patient with metabolic syndrom Rudolf deChatel, Hungary |
16.30 – 16.45 | Coffee break |
16.45 – 17.15 | Lecture: Hypertension in the elderly Jean Michel Mallion, France |
17.15 – 17.30 | Discussion |
17.30 – 18.00 | Presentation of a clinical case by a local expert: How to manage a diabetic hypertensive patient George Jermendy, Hungary |
Wednesday December 2nd
Chairmen: Csaba Farsang, Krzysztof Narkiewicz 09.00 – 09.30 | Lecture: The nephropathic patient Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Poland |
09.30 – 09.45 | Discussion |
09.45 – 10.15 | Presentation of a clinical case by a local expert: How to manage a nephropathic patient István Kiss, Hungary |
10.15 – 10.45 | Lecture: Do beta-blockers decrease cardiovascular risk? Are all beta-blockers equally effective? István Czuriga, Hungary |
10.45 – 11.00 | Discussion |
11.00 – 11.15 | Coffee break |
11.15 – 11.45 | Lecture: Treatment of hypertension with drug combinations. Which combination for which patient? Csaba Farsang, Hungary |
11.45 – 12.00 | Discussion |
12.00 – 14.00 | Lunch |
Chairmen: Csaba Farsang, Giuseppe Mancia 14.00 – 14.30 | Hypertensive heart failure: diagnosis and treatment István Préda, Hungary |
14.30 – 14.45 | Coffee break |
14.45 – 15.30 | The ESH survey on cardiovascular risk profile in hypertensive patients in Eastern Europe Giuseppe Mancia, Italy |
15.30 - 16.00 | Discussion and conclusion |
Introduction
Following the great success of the previous years, it is a pleasure to present to those interested in this important area of clinical medicine the 2008 Educational Master Courses of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH). The Courses are centred on a number of meetings to be held during the second half of 2008 in several European countries (mainly in Eastern Europe) with the aim to present and discuss in front of large qualified audiences the most recent progress on diagnosis and treatment of hypertension as well as on prevention of cardiovascular risk. The basis for the presentations and the discussion will be the recent guidelines on the treatment of hypertension prepared by the ESH and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) which were published in 2007 in the Journal of Hypertension and the European Heart Journal. In each meeting ESH opinion leaders will review trial and mechanistic data that have formed the basis for the Guidelines recommendations whereas national leaders will provide their feed-back and discuss how these recommendations can fit local clinical practice thus helping their implementation. National leaders will also present and discuss the current situation of their country as far cardiovascular research and prevention strategies are concerned with emphasis also on survey on control of blood pressure and cardiovascular risk factors recently performed in several eastern European countries. All Faculty members will finally discuss a number of clinical cases to exemplify theoretical concepts presented at the meeting. As last year the programme will be supported by an educational grant of Berlin Chemie / Menarini International to which goes the gratitude of ESH for allowing to implement an initiative that will, we hope, contribute to stimulate research and improve treatment of hypertension and cardiovascular prevention in Europe.
Faculty
Renata Cifkova | Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine Prague (Czech Republic) |
István Czuriga | Medical University, Clinic of Internal Medicine Debrecen (Hungary) |
Rudolf DeChatel | Ist. Clinic of Internal Medicine Semmelweis University Budapest (Hungary) |
Csaba Farsang | Szt. Imre Hospital Budapest (Hungary) |
George Jermendy | Bajcsy Hospital Budapest (Hungary) |
Ede Kékes | International Medical Services Budapest (Hungary) |
István Kiss | Szt. Imre Hospital Budapest (Hungary) |
Jean-Michel Mallion | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Grenoble Grenoble (France) |
Giuseppe Mancia | Universitŕ degli Studi Milano-Bicocca Milan (Italy) |
Luis Martins | President Portuguese League against Hypertension Lisbon (Portugal) |
Krzysztof Narkiewicz | Medical University of Gdansk Gdansk (Poland) |
István Préda | State Health Center Budapest (Hungary) |