• what is COPD
• epidemiology/prevalence/host factors
• clinical picture/assessment
• current approaches to drug treatment
• drug delivery & management of exacerbations
• additional management strategies

• cardiovascular disease in COPD

• local and systemic inflammation in COPD

• pulmonary hypertension and COPD

• chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

• thromboembolism in COPD
• new drugs & concepts of treatment