Search filters

List of works by Gaetano Nucifora

A dramatic storm of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation

scientific article published on 18 December 2008

Alterations in multidirectional myocardial functions in patients with aortic stenosis and preserved ejection fraction: a two-dimensional speckle tracking analysis.

scientific article published on 29 March 2011

American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association perioperative assessment guidelines for noncardiac surgery reduces cardiologic resource utilization preserving a favourable clinical outcome

scientific article published in November 2007

Anatomy of pulmonary veins by real-time 3D TEE: implications for catheter-based pulmonary vein ablation

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery mimicking aortic dissection at transesophageal echocardiography

scientific article published on 27 September 2006

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy as a cause of sudden infant death

scientific article published in April 2008

Assessment of global left ventricular function and volumes with 320-row multidetector computed tomography: A comparison with 2D-echocardiography

scientific article

Assessment with multi-slice computed tomography and gray-scale and virtual histology intravascular ultrasound of gender-specific differences in extent and composition of coronary atherosclerotic plaques in relation to age.

scientific article published on 5 January 2010

Association between multilayer left ventricular rotational mechanics and the development of left ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 13 January 2014

Biventricular non-compaction demonstrated on multi-slice computed tomography with echocardiographic correlation

scientific article

Blunt traumatic abdominal aortic rupture: CT imaging

scientific article published on 10 July 2007

Cardiac fibroma mimicking hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: role of magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis

scientific article published on 13 April 2011

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in Danon disease

scientific article published on 29 February 2012

Clinical spectrum of isolated left ventricular noncompaction: thromboembolic events, malignant left ventricular arrhythmias, and refractory heart failure

scientific article published on 05 March 2014

Comparison of aortic root dimensions and geometries before and after transcatheter aortic valve implantation by 2- and 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and multislice computed tomography.

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Comparison of early dobutamine stress echocardiography and exercise electrocardiographic testing for management of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain

scientific article published on 18 July 2007

Congenital quadricuspid aortic valve associated with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Coronary artery calcium scoring in cardiovascular risk assessment.

scientific article published on 14 June 2010

Disease-specific differences of left ventricular rotational mechanics between cardiac amyloidosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Early repolarization in arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathy: insights from cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 03 May 2012

Effect of Biventricular Pacing on Diastolic Dyssynchrony

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

Effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy on subendo- and subepicardial left ventricular twist mechanics and relation to favorable outcome

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

Effect on Quality of Life of Different Accelerated Diagnostic Protocols for Management of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Acute Chest Pain

scientific article published on 12 January 2009

Effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on left ventricular twist

scientific article published in September 2009

Evaluation of the left atrial appendage with real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography: implications for catheter-based left atrial appendage closure.

scientific article

Fast data acquisition and analysis with real time triplane echocardiography for the assessment of left ventricular size and function: a validation study

scientific article

Fat in left ventricular myocardium assessed by steady-state free precession pulse sequences.

scientific article

Feasibility and acute efficacy of radiofrequency ablation of cavotricuspid isthmus-dependent atrial flutter guided by real-time 3D TEE.

scientific article published in July 2011

Feasibility of diastolic function assessment with cardiac CT: feasibility study in comparison with tissue Doppler imaging.

scientific article published in March 2011

Findings from left ventricular strain and strain rate imaging in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 26 September 2009

Global longitudinal strain predicts long-term survival in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Head-to-head comparison between bicycle exercise testing and coronary calcium score and coronary stenoses on multislice computed tomography

scientific article published on 01 June 2009

How many patients would be misclassified using M-mode and two-dimensional estimates of left atrial size instead of left atrial volume? A three-dimensional echocardiographic study

scientific article published in May 2008

Imaging the Atrial Septum Using Real-Time Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography: Technical Tips, Normal Anatomy, and Its Role in Transseptal Puncture ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 March 2011

Impact of emergency coronary angiography on in-hospital outcome of unconscious survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

scientific article published on 10 September 2012

Impact of left ventricular dyssynchrony early on left ventricular function after first acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 21 December 2009

Improved workflow, sonographer productivity, and cost-effectiveness of echocardiographic service for inpatients by using miniaturized systems.

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

Incremental prognostic value of novel left ventricular diastolic indexes for prediction of clinical outcome in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

scientific article

Incremental prognostic value of restrictive filling pattern in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A Doppler echocardiographic study

scientific article published on 31 August 2007

Incremental value of 2-dimensional speckle tracking strain imaging to wall motion analysis for detection of coronary artery disease in patients undergoing dobutamine stress echocardiography

scientific article published on 3 October 2009

Incremental value of subclinical left ventricular systolic dysfunction for the identification of patients with obstructive coronary artery disease.

scientific article published in January 2010

Incremental value of three-dimensional strain imaging in Danon disease.

scientific article

Infarct-like acute myocarditis: relation between electrocardiographic findings and myocardial damage as assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 24 December 2012

Intramural myocardial hemorrhagic rupture in a patient with metastatic cancer and myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Lack of improvement of clinical outcomes by a low-cost, hospital-based heart failure management programme.

scientific article published in August 2006

Left ventricular muscle and fluid mechanics in acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published in November 2010

Left ventricular rotational mechanics in acute myocardial infarction and in chronic (ischemic and nonischemic) heart failure patients

scientific article published on 8 April 2009

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

scientific article published in November 2010

Lipomatous metaplasia in ischemic cardiomyopathy: current knowledge and clinical perspective.

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Longitudinal mechanics of the periinfarct zone and ventricular tachycardia inducibility in patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published in October 2010

Magnetic resonance assessment of prevalence and correlates of right ventricular abnormalities in isolated left ventricular noncompaction

scientific article published on 04 October 2013

Myocardial fibrosis as the first sign of cardiac involvement in a male patient with Fabry disease: report of a clinical case and discussion on the utility of the magnetic resonance in Fabry pathology

scientific article

Myocardial fibrosis in isolated left ventricular non-compaction and its relation to disease severity.

scientific article published on 4 January 2011

Plaque type and composition as evaluated non-invasively by MSCT angiography and invasively by VH IVUS in relation to the degree of stenosis

scientific article published on 20 October 2009

Prediction of cardiac resynchronization therapy response: value of calibrated integrated backscatter imaging

scientific article published on 17 November 2009

Predictive value of electrocardiogram in diagnosing acute coronary artery lesions among patients with out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest

scientific article published on 30 April 2013

Predictors of death and occurrence of appropriate implantable defibrillator therapies in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy

scientific article published on 14 October 2010

Prevalence and prognostic value of concealed structural abnormalities in patients with apparently idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias of left versus right ventricular origin: a magnetic resonance imaging study

scientific article published on 25 April 2014

Prevalence of coronary artery disease across the Framingham risk categories: coronary artery calcium scoring and MSCT coronary angiography

scientific article published on 14 February 2009

Prevalence of coronary artery disease assessed by multislice computed tomography coronary angiography in patients with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation.

scientific article published on 26 January 2009

Prognostic value of echocardiography after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 09 March 2009

Pulmonary embolism and fever: an indication for urgent echocardiography not reported in clinical guidelines?

scientific article

Pulmonary embolism and fever: when should right-sided infective endocarditis be considered?

scientific article published on February 2007

Pulmonary fat embolism: common and unusual computed tomography findings

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Pulmonary vein isolation guided by real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography.

scientific article

Quantification of functional mitral regurgitation by real-time 3D echocardiography: comparison with 3D velocity-encoded cardiac magnetic resonance

scientific article published in November 2009

Real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography early after acute myocardial infarction: incremental value of echo-contrast for assessment of left ventricular function

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Real-time 3-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography of the atrioventricular septal defect

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Real-time, fluoroless, anatomic-guided catheter navigation by 3D TEE during ablation procedures

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Reduced left ventricular torsion early after myocardial infarction is related to left ventricular remodeling

scientific article published on 17 May 2010

Relation between Framingham risk categories and the presence of functionally relevant coronary lesions as determined on multislice computed tomography and stress testing

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Relation of epicardial adipose tissue to coronary atherosclerosis

scientific article published on 14 October 2008

Relationship between obstructive coronary artery disease and abnormal stress testing in patients with paroxysmal or persistent atrial fibrillation.

scientific article

Relative merits of left ventricular dyssynchrony, left ventricular lead position, and myocardial scar to predict long-term survival of ischemic heart failure patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy

scientific article published on 20 December 2010

Role of left ventricular twist mechanics in the assessment of cardiac dyssynchrony in heart failure

scientific article published on December 2009

Safety of contrast-enhanced echocardiography within 24 h after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 16 July 2008

Severe involvement of pulmonary arteries in Takayasu arteritis: magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 10 September 2010

Severe tricuspid regurgitation due to entrapment of the anterior leaflet of the valve by a permanent pacemaker lead: role of real time three-dimensional echocardiography

scientific article published in July 2007

Subclinical left ventricular dysfunction and coronary atherosclerosis in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Successful treatment of polymicrobial multivalve infective endocarditis. Multivalve infective endocarditis

scientific article published on 04 November 2006

Temporal evolution of left ventricular dyssynchrony after myocardial infarction: relation with changes in left ventricular systolic function

scientific article published on 07 May 2012

The value of multi-slice-computed tomography coronary angiography for risk stratification

scientific article

Thrombolysis in acute nonmassive pulmonary embolism: potential role of multidetector-row spiral computed tomography in decision making

scientific article published in July 2008

Type 2 diabetes is associated with more advanced coronary atherosclerosis on multislice computed tomography and virtual histology intravascular ultrasound

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Uncommon cause of ST-segment elevation in V1-V3: incremental value of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

scientific article published on 27 April 2014

Value of contrast echocardiography for left ventricular thrombus detection postinfarction and impact on antithrombotic therapy

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Value of three-dimensional speckle-tracking longitudinal strain for predicting improvement of left ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 19 June 2012

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help