Publications by authors named "E Mangiarotti"
Article Synopsis
- Healthy ageing is important for older people and can be helped by how society supports them, but this support can sometimes be lacking.
- The TILDA project studies how to promote healthy ageing and finds out what older people and their support groups think about its efforts.
- Interviews with 15 organizations showed some limitations of TILDA, like not being inclusive enough, but also highlighted its benefits, like providing useful information to help plan for the needs of older people in the future.
Established in 2006, the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) investigates the health, economic and social circumstances of a nationally-representative sample of people aged fifty years and older in a series of biennial data collection waves. Irish newspapers have been reporting the results of TILDA for over a decade and a half, and their texts represent reports of scientific research distilled through the pen of journalists. In their totality, their texts constitute a public discourse on ageing and health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The present study was undertaken in order to evaluate the efficacy of the intravenous administration of Albunex in obtaining left ventricular opacification and the relationship between left ventricular opacification and pulmonary pressures and cardiac function.
Methods: Fifty-two adult patients, mostly affected by ischemic heart disease, were enrolled in the study. In 37 of these patients, a complete right heart hemodynamic study was performed after Swan-Ganz catheterization.
The present study was undertaken in order specifically to evaluate the usefulness of digital image processing so as to enhance the diagnostic power of dobutamine stress echocardiography. For this purpose 44 dobutamine echocardiographic tests, routinely performed in our echo laboratory, were analysed blindly by two observers using traditional videotape recording and digitized image acquisition. The results obtained from both observers show a trend which suggests that the traditional videotape approach provides more true-positive tests than the digitized approach (27/38 vs 23/38 and 24/38 vs 22/38 for the first and second observer, respectively).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The present study was designed in order to evaluate the prevalence of mitral regurgitation in patients with the "incomplete mitral leaflet closure" echocardiographic pattern, to verify whether the amount of "incomplete mitral leaflet closure" is related to the severity of mitral regurgitation and, last, to verify the relation between the "incomplete mitral leaflet closure" and left ventricular morphology and function.
Methods: We studied 80 patients (14 patients with dilatative cardiomyopathy, 26 patients with coronary artery disease, and 40 patients with hypertensive heart disease or aortic valve disease) showing the "incomplete mitral leaflet closure" pattern, retrospectively selected from a population composed of 1700 consecutive patients routinely examined in our echocardiographic laboratory. In all patients we evaluated the presence and the severity of mitral regurgitation, the morphological and functional parameters of the left ventricle, the systolic diameter of the mitral annulus, the distance between the point of mitral leaflet coaptation and the annular plane, and the incomplete mitral closure area, assuming the last two parameters as indexes of the severity of incomplete closure of the mitral valve.