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View article: Mitral Valve Repair for the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Endocarditis: Analysis of a 10-Year Single-Center Experience
Mitral Valve Repair for the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Endocarditis: Analysis of a 10-Year Single-Center Experience Open
Background/Objectives: Acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE) is a frequent situation and continues to be a challenge. Mitral valve involvement during acute bacterial endocarditis is often the result of the spread of the endocarditic process f…
View article: Surgical and Clinical Aspects Associated with Double-Valve Infective Endocarditis
Surgical and Clinical Aspects Associated with Double-Valve Infective Endocarditis Open
Background: Double-valve infective endocarditis (DVIE) accounts for 15–20% of all endocarditis and represents a challenge due to the increased incidence of embolic events and congestive heart failure compared to infective endocarditis (IE)…
View article: Selective Vein Graft Cold Cardioplegia and Warm Reperfusion to Enhance Early Recovery in Patients with Left Ventricle Depression Undergoing Coronary Artery Surgery
Selective Vein Graft Cold Cardioplegia and Warm Reperfusion to Enhance Early Recovery in Patients with Left Ventricle Depression Undergoing Coronary Artery Surgery Open
Background: Antegrade root cardioplegia remains the most popular strategy for myocardial protection during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) performed with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and aortic cross clamp. In patients with depressed l…
View article: Bicuspid Valve Aortopathy: Is It Reasonable to Define a Different Surgical Cutoff Based on Different Aortic Wall Mechanical Properties Compared to Those of the Tricuspid Valve?
Bicuspid Valve Aortopathy: Is It Reasonable to Define a Different Surgical Cutoff Based on Different Aortic Wall Mechanical Properties Compared to Those of the Tricuspid Valve? Open
Background: In this study, we examined and compared ex vivo mechanical properties of aortic walls in patients with bicuspid (BAV) and tricuspid (TAV) aortic valve aortopathy to investigate if the anatomical peculiarities in the BAV group a…
View article: Circulating Endothelin 1 but Not Transforming Growth Factor-β Levels Are Reduced after Pulmonary Endarterectomy in Subjects Affected by Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Prospective Cohort Study
Circulating Endothelin 1 but Not Transforming Growth Factor-β Levels Are Reduced after Pulmonary Endarterectomy in Subjects Affected by Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Prospective Cohort Study Open
Background and objectives: Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) play a pivotal role in the pathophysiology and vascular remodeling of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) which is an under-diagnosed…
View article: Overall approaches to cardiac tumors: Still an unsolved enigma?
Overall approaches to cardiac tumors: Still an unsolved enigma? Open
Cardiac tumors are neoplasms involving heart structures at any level, meaning the myocardium, valves, and cardiac chambers. When considering cardiac masses, it is not uncommon for surgeons to be surprised when they diagnose one. The real i…
View article: Double Patch Hybrid Technique for Treatment of Complex Left Ventricle Acute Free Wall Rupture
Double Patch Hybrid Technique for Treatment of Complex Left Ventricle Acute Free Wall Rupture Open
Left ventricle free wall rupture (LVFWR) is a potentially catastrophic complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Despite its incidence has been significantly reduced in the recent era, it still carries a high mortality as it is th…
View article: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR LEFT SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY REVASCULARIZATION DURING ZONE–2 AORTIC ARCH SURGERYEMENT
ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR LEFT SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY REVASCULARIZATION DURING ZONE–2 AORTIC ARCH SURGERYEMENT Open
Objective Anatomical extension of surgical treatment of thoracic aortic pathologies involving the aortic arch is still controversial. The adoption of distal anastomosis in aortic arch zone–2 (Z2–AAR), in order to facilitate bleeding contro…
View article: IATROGENIC ACUTE MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY FOLLOWING IMPELLA–ASSISTED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE
IATROGENIC ACUTE MITRAL INSUFFICIENCY FOLLOWING IMPELLA–ASSISTED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE Open
Background Short–term left ventricle mechanical assistance device could be useful in assist interventional cardiologist during high–risk procedures. Abiomed Impella is one of the most frequently used device in this respect due to the high …
View article: THE “BACK TO THE FUTURE” OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY: HIGH–RISK INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE TURNED DOWN TO CONVENTIONAL CARDIAC SURGERY
THE “BACK TO THE FUTURE” OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY: HIGH–RISK INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURE TURNED DOWN TO CONVENTIONAL CARDIAC SURGERY Open
Background Structural interventional cardiology has been introduced at the beginning of our century to address high–risk patient suffering from severe aortic stenosis. Since then several technique and technology have been proposed to addre…
View article: Direct Right Axillary Artery Cannulation as First Choice Strategy during Aortic Surgery Procedures: Results from a Single Experienced Surgical Centre
Direct Right Axillary Artery Cannulation as First Choice Strategy during Aortic Surgery Procedures: Results from a Single Experienced Surgical Centre Open
Objectives: Since early nineties axillary artery has been proposed as alternative to femoral artery for peripheral arterial cannulation during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in aortic surgery. The aim of this study is to report our single-ce…
View article: Fertility specialists’ views, behavior, and attitudes towards the use of endometrial scratching in Italy
Fertility specialists’ views, behavior, and attitudes towards the use of endometrial scratching in Italy Open
Background Endometrial scratching (ES) or injury is intentional damage to the endometrium performed to improve reproductive outcomes for infertile women desiring pregnancy. Moreover, recent systematic reviews with meta-analyses and randomi…
View article: Second Primary Malignancies in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer after Radionuclide Therapy: A Retrospective Single-Centre Study
Second Primary Malignancies in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer after Radionuclide Therapy: A Retrospective Single-Centre Study Open
Second primary malignancies (SPM) are described as any primary, not synchronous, malignancy arising in a different anatomical district, with confirmed histological diagnosis. Age at diagnosis, previous non-thyroidal primary malignancy, and…
View article: Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia using Pre-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Plasmapheresis and Immunoglobulin Infusion
Pulmonary Endarterectomy in a Patient with Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia using Pre-Cardiopulmonary Bypass Plasmapheresis and Immunoglobulin Infusion Open
We report a peculiar case of a 77 years woman affected by chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) with surgical indication to pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) but with the concomitant presence of anti-PF4-heparin autoantibodies…
View article: Initial Testing of an Approximated, Fast Calculation Procedure for Personalized Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy Based on Planar Whole-Body Scan and Monte-Carlo Specific Dose Rates from the OpenDose Project
Initial Testing of an Approximated, Fast Calculation Procedure for Personalized Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy Based on Planar Whole-Body Scan and Monte-Carlo Specific Dose Rates from the OpenDose Project Open
Individualized dosimetry in nuclear medicine is currently at least advisable in order to obtain the best risk–benefit balance in terms of the maximal dose to lesions and under-threshold doses to radiosensitive organs. This article aims to …
View article: P42 ASCENDING AORTIC DISEASE: IS CURRENT GENERAL PERCEPTION UPDATED TO CURRENT GUIDELINES ??
P42 ASCENDING AORTIC DISEASE: IS CURRENT GENERAL PERCEPTION UPDATED TO CURRENT GUIDELINES ?? Open
Backgroud Thoracic aorta diseases represent a frequent cause of hospitalization and up to 15% of workload of a modern Cardiac Surgery centre. To allow for an accurate monitoring of such activity a dedicated thoracic aorta diseases clinic w…
View article: C16 PROPENSITY SCORE COMPARISON OF ELASTIN–BASED AND COLLAGEN–BASED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AORTIC WALL IN BICUSPID VS TRICUSPID AORTIC VALVE PATIENTS UNDERGOING AORTIC SURGERY
C16 PROPENSITY SCORE COMPARISON OF ELASTIN–BASED AND COLLAGEN–BASED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF AORTIC WALL IN BICUSPID VS TRICUSPID AORTIC VALVE PATIENTS UNDERGOING AORTIC SURGERY Open
Objective Several studies addressed characteristics of aortic wall in patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) compared to those with tricuspid aortic valve (TAV). Different patients population and lack of randomization were the main limi…
View article: Alteration of Cholesterol Sulfate/Seminolipid Ratio in Semen Lipid Profile of Men With Oligoasthenozoospermia
Alteration of Cholesterol Sulfate/Seminolipid Ratio in Semen Lipid Profile of Men With Oligoasthenozoospermia Open
The reduction of sperm motility and count, or oligoasthenozoospermia, is one of the major causes of reduced fertility or infertility in men. Lipid composition of spermatozoa is important in determining their functional characteristics, in …
View article: Rationale and design of two prospective, multicenter, observational studies on reproductive outcome in women with recurrent failures after spontaneous or assisted conception: OTTILIA and FIRST registries
Rationale and design of two prospective, multicenter, observational studies on reproductive outcome in women with recurrent failures after spontaneous or assisted conception: OTTILIA and FIRST registries Open
View article: Asthma-like symptoms: is it always a pulmonary issue?
Asthma-like symptoms: is it always a pulmonary issue? Open
Background: Double aortic arch is a rare congenital and complete vascular ring around trachea and esophagus. It is usually diagnosed during infancy. The symptoms are generally related to respiratory and gastroesophageal tracts. Case presen…
View article: Asthma-like symptoms: is it always a pulmonary issue?
Asthma-like symptoms: is it always a pulmonary issue? Open
Background Double aortic arch is a rare congenital and complete vascular ring around trachea and esophagus. It is usually diagnosed during infancy. The symptoms are generally related to respiratory and gastroesophageal tracts. Case present…
View article: Patient–prosthesis mismatch after mitral valve replacement: complex enigma with more than one solution
Patient–prosthesis mismatch after mitral valve replacement: complex enigma with more than one solution Open
We read with interest the article by Ammannaya et al. [1] addressing the complex enigma of mitral patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM), which we addressed in 2007 [2,3], and we would like to add few comments.We previously showed a key factor …
View article: Advantages of Minimal Access versus Conventional Aortic Valve Replacement in Elderly or Severely Obese Patients
Advantages of Minimal Access versus Conventional Aortic Valve Replacement in Elderly or Severely Obese Patients Open
Objective The aim of our study was to investigate potential clinical advantages of minimal access versus conventional surgical approach in older and severely obese patients undergoing isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR). Methods One hu…