Publications by authors named "Daniele Maio"
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- The study investigates the effectiveness of high-sensitivity troponin I (TnI) levels in diagnosing myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with heart failure (HF), as traditional methods may be less reliable in this group.
- Data from 562 patients with suspected MI were analyzed, showing that while baseline TnI had moderate predictive capability for MI, the relative change in TnI levels was a much more accurate indicator.
- The findings suggest that monitoring TnI changes is crucial for MI diagnosis in heart failure patients, and baseline TnI accuracy can be affected by the severity of HF, highlighting the need for comprehensive evaluation including BNP levels.
Coronary sinus diameter to estimate congestion and predict survival.
Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc
December 2023
Background: Congestion predicts a poor prognosis, but its assessment is challenging in clinical practice and requires a multiparametric approach. We investigated if the coronary sinus (CS) diameter can predict mortality in a human model of rapid fluid unloading.
Methods: We measured by echocardiography the CS, and the inferior vena cava (IVC) for comparison, in 60 patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease (ESKD) immediately before and after hemodialysis (HD; age 76 [57-81] years, 40% female, left ventricular ejection fraction 57 [53-56]%).
Data on primary cutaneous lymphomas (PCLs) patients in the Italian population are limited, and, despite the existence of several treatment options, the management of those patients remains challenging. Our study aimed to investigate the clinical and therapeutic features of PCL patients in a referral center in Italy. We conducted a retrospective study on 100 consecutive PCL patients between January 2017 and December 2022.
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- Researchers are studying how cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) can help doctors predict the health of patients with a heart disease called cardiac amyloidosis (CA).
- They found that two specific measurements from these tests—peak VO and VE/VCO slope—can show who might be at a higher risk of dying from the disease.
- The results suggest that using CPET could be really helpful for doctors in deciding how to treat patients with CA better, but more research with larger groups of people is needed to confirm their findings.
Background: Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is primarily a restrictive cardiomyopathy in which the impairment of diastolic function is dominant. Despite this, the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) may be depressed in the late stage of the disease, but it poorly predicts prognosis in the earlier phases and does not represent well the pathophysiology of CA. Many echocardiographic parameters resulted important diagnostic and prognostic tools in patients with CA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper aims to highlight the usefulness of "bedside" lung ultrasound in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation of lung artifacts allows to detect at the subpleural level the presence of an altered "tissue/air" ratio both in case of consolidative or not consolidative lung lesions. Furthermore, lung ultrasound allows acquiring topographical images of the lesions, establishing their extension on the lung surface as well as their evolution or regression over time, without radiation exposure.
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