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"My parents died of myocardial infarction: is that my destiny?".

scientific article published on January 2012

2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis: The Task Force for the Management of Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Endorsed by: European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the Eur

scientific article published on 29 August 2015

A novel clinical risk prediction model for sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM risk-SCD).

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2-Evidence Base and Standardized Methods of Imaging

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI Expert Consensus Recommendations for Multimodality Imaging in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Part 2 of 2-Diagnostic Criteria and Appropriate Utilization

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI expert consensus recommendations for multimodality imaging in cardiac amyloidosis: Part 1 of 2-evidence base and standardized methods of imaging

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

ASNC/AHA/ASE/EANM/HFSA/ISA/SCMR/SNMMI expert consensus recommendations for multimodality imaging in cardiac amyloidosis: Part 2 of 2-Diagnostic criteria and appropriate utilization

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Accuracy of non-invasive techniques for diagnosis of coronary artery disease and prediction of cardiac events in patients with left bundle branch block: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 July 2006

Acute and chronic haemodynamic effects of biventricular pacing and of switching to different pacing modalities in heart failure patients.

scientific article published on 19 October 2005

Age and heart transplantation: results from a heart failure management unit

scientific article published in March 2008

Amyloid deposition as a cause of atrial remodelling in persistent valvular atrial fibrillation.

scientific article published in July 2004

Amyloid fibrils containing fragmented ATTR may be the standard fibril composition in ATTR amyloidosis.

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An unusual case of a congenital aorto-left atrial tunnel.

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Anticoagulant drugs in noncompaction: a mandatory therapy?

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Antisense modulation of both exonic and intronic splicing motifs induces skipping of a DMD pseudo-exon responsible for x-linked dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in September 2010

Aortic thrombosis: a shared complication of different underlying diseases

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Arrhythmia discrimination by physician and defibrillator: importance of atrial channel.

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Atherosclerotic aortic lesions increase the risk of cerebral embolism during carotid stenting in patients with complex aortic arch anatomy

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Atrial fibrillation in amyloidotic cardiomyopathy: prevalence, incidence, risk factors and prognostic role

scientific article published on 21 May 2015

Baseline white blood cell count is an independent predictor of long-term cardiovascular mortality in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome, but it does not improve the risk classification of the GRACE score

scientific article published on 07 February 2013

Brain Microbleeds 12 Years after Orthotopic Liver Transplantation in Val30Met Amyloidosis

scientific article published on 20 March 2015

Cardiac FDG PET/CT is useful to assess the culprit lesion in nonST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI).

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Cardiac amyloidosis: the great pretender

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Cardiac involvement in hereditary-transthyretin related amyloidosis.

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Cardiac resynchronization by pacing: an electrical treatment of heart failure

scientific article published on April 2004

Cardiac resynchronization therapy in clinical practice: need for electrical, mechanical, clinical and logistic synchronization

scientific article published on December 2006

Cardiac resynchronization therapy: variations in echo-guided optimized atrioventricular and interventricular delays during follow-up

scientific article published in October 2007

Cardioverter-defibrillators after MADIT-II: the balance between weight of evidence and treatment costs

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Carotid revascularization in patients with ongoing oral anticoagulant therapy: the advantages of stent placement

scientific article published on 01 March 2013

Classification of the cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the European Society Of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

scientific article published on 4 October 2007

Clinical relevance of atrial fibrillation/flutter, stroke, pacemaker implant, and heart failure in Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy: a long-term longitudinal study

article by Giuseppe Boriani et al published April 2003 in Stroke Journal

Combined computed tomography and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in the diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis: a case series.

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Comparison of ventricular long-axis function in patients with cardiac amyloidosis versus idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Contribution of magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis and symmetric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Cyclosporine lowering with everolimus versus mycophenolate mofetil in heart transplant recipients: long-term follow-up of the SHIRAKISS randomized, prospective study

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Defining the diagnosis in echocardiographically suspected senile systemic amyloidosis.

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Diagnosis of idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy at a glance

Diagnostic work-up in cardiomyopathies: bridging the gap between clinical phenotypes and final diagnosis. A position statement from the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

Different types of cardiomyopathy associated with isolated ventricular noncompaction

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Differential effect of everolimus on progression of early and late cardiac allograft vasculopathy in current clinical practice

scientific article published in May 2013

Dilated-hypokinetic evolution of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: prevalence, incidence, risk factors, and prognostic implications in pediatric and adult patients

scientific article published on 28 September 2005

Disease profile and differential diagnosis of hereditary transthyretin-related amyloidosis with exclusively cardiac phenotype: an Italian perspective.

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Echocardiographic clues to diagnosis of dystrophin related dilated cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on January 2007

Effect of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy on Left Atrial Size and Function as Expressed by Speckle Tracking 2-Dimensional Strain.

scientific article published on 5 May 2016

Effect of enoximone alone and in combination with metoprolol on myocardial function and energetics in severe congestive heart failure: improvement in hemodynamic and metabolic profile.

scientific article published on June 1993

Effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy on dilated cardiomyopathy with isolated ventricular non-compaction

Effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on right ventricular function during rest and exercise, as assessed by radionuclide angiography, and on NT-proBNP levels.

scientific article published on 30 June 2017

Effects of myocardial fibrosis assessed by MRI on dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective database analysis

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Efficacy of internal cardioversion for chronic atrial fibrillation in patients with and without left ventricular dysfunction.

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Exercise stress echocardiography is superior to rest echocardiography in predicting left ventricular reverse remodelling and functional improvement after cardiac resynchronization therapy

article by Guido Rocchi et al published January 2009 in European Heart Journal

Exploring the gap between National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines and clinical practice in secondary care: results of a cross-sectional study involving over 10 000 patients followed in different specialty settings across Italy

scientific article published in September 2008

Female sex as a possible protective factor from myocardial involvement in transthyretin-related amyloidoses

scientific article published in November 2005

Frequency, determinants, and clinical relevance of acute coronary syndrome-like electrocardiographic findings in patients with acute aortic syndrome

scientific article published on 5 July 2007

Gender-related risk of myocardial involvement in systemic amyloidosis.

scientific article published in March 2008

Genetic counselling and testing in cardiomyopathies: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

scientific article published on 07 September 2010

Genotypic and phenotypic correlation in an Italian population of hereditary amyloidosis TTR-related (HA-TTR): clinical and neurophysiological aids to diagnosis and some reflections on misdiagnosis

scientific article published in June 2012

Guideline of transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis for clinicians.

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Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: the task force for the diagnosis and treatment of non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes of the European Society of Cardiology

scientific article published on 30 October 2007

Guía ESC 2015 sobre el tratamiento de la endocarditis infecciosa

Haemodynamic effects of short term intravenous amiodarone for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on April 1, 1988

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: uncertainties and dilemmas

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Heart transplantation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 20 December 2007

Heart transplantation in infants with idiopathic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

article published in 2009

High 99mTc-DPD myocardial uptake in a patient with apolipoprotein AI-related amyloidotic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

How, why, and when may atrial defibrillation find a specific role in implantable devices? A clinical viewpoint.

scientific article published on March 2007

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with massive hypertrophy, amiodarone treatment and high defibrillation threshold at cardioverter-defibrillator implant

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Identification of TTR-Related Subclinical Amyloidosis With 99mTc-DPD Scintigraphy

scientific article published in May 2014

Idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy in the young: report of two cases

scientific article published on 01 November 1990

Imaging myocardium at risk and coronary inflammation in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: combined use of FDG PET and optical coherence tomography

scientific article published in January 2015

Incidence, treatment and outcome of acute coronary syndromes: a community-based study in the era of myocardial infarction networks

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Interplay of coronary angiography and intravascular ultrasound in predicting long-term outcomes after heart transplantation.

scientific article published on 7 February 2015

Interventricular delay optimization: a comparison among three different echocardiographic methods.

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Isolated ventricular non-compaction with restrictive cardiomyopathy

Late Improvement in Ventricular Performance Following Internal Cardioversion for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation:

Late gadolinium enhancement score (LGE-Score) for prediction of extensive late gadolinium enhancement in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Left ventricular rotational mechanics in patients with coronary artery disease: differences in subendocardial and subepicardial layers

scientific article published in November 2010

Left ventricular structure and function in transthyretin-related versus light-chain cardiac amyloidosis

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Left ventricular versus biventricular pacing: a randomized comparative study evaluating mid-term electromechanical and clinical effects.

scientific article published in February 2008

Local Amyloidosis as a Possible Component of the Atrial Remodeling Accompanying Trial

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Long term outcome in patients with silent versus symptomatic ischaemia during dobutamine stress echocardiography.

scientific article published on June 2005

Long-Term Outcome and Risk Stratification in Dilated Cardiolaminopathies

Long-Term Safety of Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Stents: Evidence From a Comprehensive Network Meta-Analysis

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Long-term outcomes and causes of death after acute coronary syndrome in patients in the Bologna, Italy, area

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Massive pulmonary embolism with acute coronary syndrome-like electrocardiogram mimicking acute left main coronary artery obstruction

article published in 2012

Mortality in patients treated with extended duration dual antiplatelet therapy after drug-eluting stent implantation: a pairwise and Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomised trials.

scientific article published on 14 March 2015

Myocardial amyloid infiltration: a less than expected homogeneous process

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Neurohormones and inflammatory mediators in patients with heart failure undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy: time courses and prediction of response

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New pathological insights into cardiac amyloidosis: implications for non-invasive diagnosis

scientific article published on 17 May 2012

Non-invasive detection of coronary artery stenosis: a comparison among power-Doppler contrast echo, 99Tc-Sestamibi SPECT and echo wall-motion analysis

scientific article published in May 2003

Non-invasive evaluation of the myocardial substrate of cardiac amyloidosis by gadolinium cardiac magnetic resonance

scientific article published on 6 June 2005

Nonbiopsy Diagnosis of Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis.

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Noninvasive etiologic diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis using 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid scintigraphy

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Nuclear imaging for cardiac amyloidosis

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Obstructive intramural coronary amyloidosis: a distinct phenotype of cardiac amyloidosis that can cause acute heart failure

scientific article published on 02 February 2006

Outcome of cardioverter-defibrillator implant in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 21 May 2007

Paradigm shifts in aortic pathology: clinical and therapeutic implications. Clinical imaging in chronic and acute aortic syndromes. The aorta as a cause of cardiac disease

scientific article published in June 2014

Paradoxical contributions of non-compacted and compacted segments to global left ventricular dysfunction in isolated left ventricular noncompaction

scientific article published on 9 January 2006

Phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity in transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis: towards tailoring of therapeutic strategies?

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Potential of non-antiarrhythmic drugs to provide an innovative upstream approach to the pharmacological prevention of sudden cardiac death

scientific article published on May 2007

Precipitating factors and decision-making processes of short-term worsening heart failure despite "optimal" treatment (from the IN-CHF Registry)

scientific article published on 01 August 2001

Prediction of thrombo-embolic risk in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM Risk-CVA).

scientific article published on 16 July 2015

Predictors of complicated athero-thrombotic lesions in non-ST segment acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published in June 2013

Predictors of nonsimultaneous interventricular delay at cardiac resynchronization therapy optimization

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

Prenatal echographic recognition of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy leading to heart transplantation in the newborn

scientific article published on 14 November 2007

Prognostic implications of the Doppler restrictive filling pattern in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Prognostic significance of baseline white blood cell count in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

Prognostic significance of left anterior hemiblock in patients with suspected coronary artery disease

scientific article published in September 2005

Prognostic significance of mean platelet volume on admission in an unselected cohort of patients with non ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Prognostic stratification and treatment of cardiac light chain amyloidosis: a narrow path in the jungle

scientific article published on 27 November 2013

Prognostic stratification of patients with right bundle branch block using dobutamine stress echocardiography

scientific article published in October 2004

Prognostic value of depressed midwall systolic function in cardiac light-chain amyloidosis

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

Prognostic value of quantitative contrast-enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance for the evaluation of sudden death risk in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Radionuclide angiographic determination of regional left ventricular systolic function during rest and exercise in patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy.

scientific article published in August 2010

Radionuclide evaluation of ventricular function at rest and during exercise in double inlet ventricle

scientific article published on 01 April 1989

Reactive follicular lymphoid infiltrate: a new condition to exclude in patients with PET positivity inside the heart

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Recent temporal trends for first-time hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction. Treatment patterns and clinical outcome in a large cohort study

scientific article published on 8 October 2013

Risk factors for diagnostic delay in acute aortic dissection

scientific article published on 11 September 2008

Risk of stroke in patients with high on-clopidogrel platelet reactivity to adenosine diphosphate after percutaneous coronary intervention

scientific article published on 15 March 2014

Risk of sudden death and outcome in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with benign presentation and without risk factors

scientific article published on 12 February 2014

Risk stratification of patients with classic angina pectoris and no history of coronary artery disease by dobutamine stress echocardiography

scientific article published in August 2005

Role of (99m)Tc-DPD scintigraphy in diagnosis and prognosis of hereditary transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

Role of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis in patients with an implanted cardiac device: a prospective study

scientific article published on 07 May 2014

Safety and efficacy of early aggressive versus cholesterol-driven lipid-lowering strategies in heart transplantation: a pilot, randomized, intravascular ultrasound study.

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Seven-year follow-up after dobutamine stress echocardiography: impact of gender on prognosis

scientific article published in January 2005

Short- and long-term prognostic significance of ST-segment elevation in lead aVR in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

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Short- versus long-term dual antiplatelet therapy after drug-eluting stent implantation: an individual patient data pairwise and network meta-analysis

scientific article published on March 2015

Significance of magnetic resonance imaging in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 10 April 2010

Significance of sarcomere gene mutations analysis in the end-stage phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

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Syncope and risk of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

Systemic cardiac amyloidoses: disease profiles and clinical courses of the 3 main types.

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The Italian Registry for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a nationwide survey

scientific article published on November 2005

The Mediterranean diet: a cultural journey.

scientific article published on 10 March 2011

The absence of dystrophin brain isoform expression in healthy human heart ventricles explains the pathogenesis of 5' X-linked dilated cardiomyopathy.

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The difficult diagnosis of isolated cardiac sarcoidosis: usefulness of an integrated MRI and PET approach

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The elusive link between aortic wall histology and echocardiographic anatomy in bicuspid aortic valve: implications for prophylactic surgery

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

The empowerment of translational research: lessons from laminopathies.

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The residual risk of cerebral embolism after carotid stenting: the complex interplay between stent coverage and aortic arch atherosclerosis

scientific article published on 20 February 2009

The revival of heart rate

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Transesophageal echocardiography-guided algorithm for stent-graft implantation in aortic dissection

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Transthyretin-related amyloidoses and the heart: a clinical overview

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

Transthyretin-related amyloidotic cardiomyopathy: looking for the etiological treatment

scientific article published on May 2014

Trial-generated profiles for implantation of electrical devices in outpatients with heart failure: real-world prevalence and 1-year outcome

scientific article published on 27 October 2009

Usefulness and limitations of 99mTc-3,3-diphosphono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid scintigraphy in the aetiological diagnosis of amyloidotic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 11 November 2010

Usefulness of 99mTc-DPD scintigraphy in cardiac amyloidosis

scientific article published in April 2008

Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiographic monitoring to improve the outcome of stent-graft treatment of thoracic aortic aneurysms

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Ventricular dysfunction and number of non compacted segments in non compaction: non-independent predictors

scientific article published on 11 February 2009

Ventricular fibrillation during sleep in an adolescent with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the difficulty of risk stratification and the power of the cardioverter-defibrillator

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Ventricular remodeling in Loeffler endocarditis: implications for therapeutic decision making

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What is the acceptable rate of false positives for STEMI within a primary PCI network? Insights from a metropolitan system with direct ambulance-based access

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

White coats and fingerprints: diagnostic reasoning in medicine and investigative methods of fictional detectives

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Wide spectrum of presentation and variable outcomes of isolated left ventricular non-compaction.

scientific article published on 27 April 2006

[Amyloidosis. Also a heart disease]

scientific article published on 19 July 2011

[Discovering aVR: the unsuspected richness of a lonely lead]

scientific article published on 01 September 2012

[Dronedarone: a real innovation or a mere second-best choice? How to find the way among guidelines, regulatory agencies and daily clinical practice]

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

[Gender effect on cardiomyopathy]

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

[Paradigm shifts in aortic pathology: clinical and therapeutic implications. Biology and pathology of the aortic wall]

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT diagnosis of unexpected extracardiac septic embolisms in patients with suspected cardiac endocarditis.

scientific article published on 8 May 2013