Publications by authors named "Alessandra Oliveti"
Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome with a severe prognosis, despite therapeutic progress. The management of the advanced stages of the syndrome is particularly complex in patients who are referred to palliative care as well as in those who are candidates for cardiac replacement therapy. For the latter group, a prompt recognition of the transition to the advanced stage as well as an early referral to the centers for cardiac replacement therapy are essential elements to ensure that patients follow the most appropriate diagnostic-therapeutic pathway.
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- The study focuses on adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD), who often suffer from heart failure (HF) due to past surgeries and require better treatment data to improve their care.
- Researchers will collect data from a multi-country register, the ARTORIA-R, identifying ACHD patients listed for heart transplantation from 1989-2020, using both retrospective and prospective methods.
- The goal is to track outcomes like clinical worsening, death on the waiting list, and overall mortality after transplantation to enhance understanding and management of advanced heart failure in this population.
Background: Rare diseases (RDs) are a heterogeneous group of pathologies, which, when present in a donor, with their anatomic or functional deficiencies, may put the recipient at risk. The aim of our work is to analyze the incidence of RDs in our donors to support transplant experts in the evaluation of these organs.
Methods: We retrospectively assessed the incidence of RDs in donors from July 2017 to June 2019, along with the risk attributed, the number of transplanted organs, and the follow-up results of the recipients.