Publications by authors named "A Furlani"
Cardiac tumors, although rare, carry high morbidity and mortality rates. They are commonly first identified either at echocardiography or incidentally at thoracoabdominal CT performed for noncardiac indications. Multimodality imaging often helps to determine the cause of these masses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale And Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic led to the national shutdown and subsequent reopening of cancer screening programs. Our diverse inner-city lung cancer screening program serves patients in the Bronx NY, which was severely affected by COVID-19, with the highest mortality in New York State in the spring of 2020. Staffing redeployment, quarantine protocols, increased safety measures, and changes in follow up resulted.
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- This study examined the cardiovascular health of women with HIV compared to those without, focusing on various heart conditions using echocardiography in the Women's Interagency HIV Study.
- Of the 1,654 participants, about 70% had HIV, with findings revealing a higher risk of left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) in women with HIV, particularly as their CD4+ count decreased.
- The results suggest that while women with HIV do have an increased risk for certain heart issues, especially at lower immune cell counts, it emphasizes the need for both heart health monitoring and HIV management in this population.
Aims: Patients with left ventricular assist device (LVAD) suffer from persistent exercise limitation despite improvement of their heart failure syndrome. Exercise training (ET) programmes to improve aerobic capacity have shown modest efficacy. High-intensity interval training (HIIT), as an alternative to moderate continuous training, has not been systematically tested in this population.
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