Aims : Access educational materials here to describe the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure and coronary artery disease; to delineate how lung disease hinders the diagnostic process, including physical examination, biomarkers, chest X ray and echocardiography; to discuss the duration of treatment following unprovoked pulmonary embolism, the need to pause anticoagulation before invasive procedures, and the management of bleeding given that new oral anticoagulation has changed, improved and complicated the treatment of acute and chronic pulmonary embolism.