Publications by authors named "A Baldo"

: Cangrelor provides rapid platelet inhibition, making it a potential option for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). However, clinical data on its use after OHCA are limited. This study investigates in-hospital outcomes of cangrelor use in this population.

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Background: Multivessel coronary artery disease (MVD) represents a common finding at invasive coronary angiography (ICA) among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors. However, optimal invasive treatment strategy for MVD in OHCA remains unknown. Our study aims to assess if complete revascularization improves one-year clinical outcomes in these patients.

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Background: Transanal excision of rectal cancer can be considered the definitive surgical treatment if the depth spread is T1 or lower, and the lesion is completely included within the resection margin. This study aims to analyze the immune microenvironment in healthy rectal mucosa as a possible predictor of tumor infiltration depth, lateral tumor spread, and recurrence of rectal cancer after transanal local excision.

Methods: This study is a subanalysis of data from the IMMUNOREACT 1 and 2 trials (NCT04915326 and NCT04917263, respectively) including all the patients who underwent transanal excision of rectal cancer.

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Background: Impaired left ventricular relaxation, high filling pressures, and dysregulation of Ca homeostasis are common findings contributing to diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Studies have shown that impaired relaxation is an early observation in the sarcomere-gene-positive preclinical HCM cohort, which suggests the potential involvement of myofilament regulators in relaxation. A molecular-level understanding of mechanism(s) at the level of the myofilament is lacking.

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Dielectric effects and the coupled electrostatics between the nanoconfined and the internal/external aqueous media contribute to the observed deviations of chemistry within the nanoconfined environment when compared with unconfined systems. A systematic understanding has remained elusive, especially with respect to background salt concentration and boundary condition effects like the nanopore surface chemistry and the reference state used to calculate free energies. We utilize molecular dynamics simulations along with thermodynamic integration to determine the free energy difference associated with acid-base chemistry in 2 nm and 4 nm slit pores open to a bulk-like reservoir.

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