Below-the-Ankle Orbital Atherectomy in Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia Patients as a Bailout Strategy for Limb Salvage: Early Clinical Experience.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and early outcomes of below the ankle orbital atherectomy in chronic limb-threatening ischemia in patients with calcified foot arteries.

Methods: 12 patients (mean age 69.4 ± 14.

Impact of COVID-19 on surgical activities and personnel: lessons for the future.

Background: COVID-19 pandemic has impacted professional, economic and social activities. In the surgical field, it has brought changes to operating activities, the organization of workforces, the protection measures for patients and personnel against possible intraoperative transmissions as well as training young surgeons. This study intends to assess the extent of this impact in our institution.

Multimodal Neurophysiological Monitoring Reduces Shunt Incidence during Carotid Endarterectomy.

Background: The use of shunt during carotid surgery is controversial. Different experiences are found in literature with transcranial Doppler (TCD), electroencephalogram (EEG), stump pressure (SP), and somatosensorial evoked potentials (SSEP).

Methods: We realized a retrospective analysis of patients treated with carotid endarterectomy in our unit in the last 2 years.

Speckle-tracking global longitudinal strain as an early predictor of cardiotoxicity in breast carcinoma.

Purpose: Recent development in anticancer therapies for breast carcinoma allowed an improvement in patients' survival, notwithstanding a parallel increase of cardiovascular morbidity. Cardiotoxicity of anticancer therapies represents a relevant problem due to its insidious onset and potentially irreversible cardiac damage. The aim of the present study was to test whether 2D speckle tracking analysis can help in predicting overt systolic dysfunction.