Multi-Sensor Device for Traceable Monitoring of Indoor Environmental Quality.

The Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) combines thermal, visual, acoustic, and air-quality conditions in indoor environments and affects occupants' health, well-being, and comfort. Performing continuous monitoring to assess IEQ is increasingly proving to be important, also due to the large amount of time that people spend in closed spaces. In the present study, the design, development, and metrological characterization of a low-cost multi-sensor device is presented.

Periareolar approach in female patients undergoing mitral and tricuspid valve surgery: An almost invisible surgical access.

Background And Aim Of The Study: Periareolar minithoracotomy represents an interesting option in minimally invasive cardiac surgery and it is our preferred approach for women. Our aim is to assess the results in female patients, in terms of nipple postoperative pain, local sensitivity, and eventual alterations in mammography after surgery.

Methods: Fifty-seven female patients underwent periareolar incision, as minithoracotomy approach, from December 2018 to December 2021.

Coronary spasm: unpredictability and safety in treatment key role of hybrid setting.

The present case highlights the crucial role of hybrid setting for diagnosis and treatment of refractory coronary spasms.

Midterm outcomes of transaortic and transapical TAVI in patients with unsuitable vascular anatomy for femoral access: A propensity score inverse probability weight study.

Aims: Transaortic (TAo) and transapical (TA) implantation can be used in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) when the transfemoral (TF) approach is precluded. We compare the safety and efficacy of these alternative techniques.

Methods: From October 2007 to February 2016, TAo and TA patients' data were collected.

Is surgery the fair competitor for MitraClip?

In the last decades, the overlapping areas of intervention between cardiac surgeons and interventional cardiologists are rocketing, especially in the field of treatment of heart valve disease. But, while for the aortic valve the competition, even for nonhigh risk patients, has become tightened, in the context of mitral regurgitation, the surgery seems to not have competitors. In fact looking the results of studies published so far, a question arises: Is surgery the fair competitor for the Mitraclip? The meta-analysis by Abdul Khader et al.