Publications by authors named "Eugenia Capati"
Incidence rate of primary cardiac tumors: a 14-year population study.
J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown)
January 2016
Aims: Incidence of primary cardiac tumors (PCTs) is not known. Literature data derive from autoptic studies or echocardiographic registries. An incidence of 1 of 1000 autoptic and 1.
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- Patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) face a risk of pulmonary hypertension, leading to poor health outcomes, and exercise Doppler echocardiography helps identify increases in pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) during physical activity.
- A study of 164 SSc patients found that 42% experienced significant increases in PASP during exercise, with predictors including age, interstitial lung disease, and diastolic dysfunction, but elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) was rare.
- The findings indicate that while nearly half of these patients show exercise-induced increases in PASP, the underlying causes are complex and vary, highlighting the diverse mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension in SSc.
Background: Little remains known about the role of overweight to promote progressive atrial and ventricular myocardial dysfunction. Aim of this study was to investigate the potential influence of overweight on left ventricular (LV) and atrial (LA) function, as assessed by speckle tracking strain analysis, in patients at low-to-moderate global cardiovascular risk.
Methods: Seventy patients presenting 1 or more cardiovascular risk factor, with preserved ejection fraction, were enrolled.
[Atrial septal pouch: not always a thrombus. A case report and literature review].
G Ital Cardiol (Rome)
September 2012
A 69-year-old patient with dilated cardiomyopathy and atrial fibrillation experienced a transient ischemic attack. A septal pouch was diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiography and a mass into the pouch was detected, which was initially defined as thrombotic material. Since the mass did not disappear after a period of effective anticoagulation, a different etiology was suspected and cardiac magnetic resonance showed a lipomatous nature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmbolic storm: an unusual complication of acute myocardial infarction.
J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown)
December 2013
The impact of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction on risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) recurrence is still unknown. The aim of this study was to assess the role of LV diastolic dysfunction in predicting AF recurrence after successful electrical cardioversion in patients with nonvalvular AF. In 51 patients with a first episode of nonvalvular AF undergoing successful electrical cardioversion, tissue Doppler echocardiography was performed to measure peak early diastolic mitral annulus velocity (E(m)) and the ratio of mitral inflow to mitral annulus velocity at end-diastole (E/E(m)).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic proportions, predisposing to the development of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Lifestyle and genetic heritability are causes of this phenomenon, together with the nutritional environment during intra-uterine life and birth weight. We examine the above mentioned relationships in the family tree of a patient with diabetes, central obesity and cardiovascular disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Failure to achieve myocardial reperfusion often occurs during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation. We hypothesized that manual thrombus aspiration during primary PCI would favorably influence tissue-level myocardial perfusion and left ventricular (LV) functional recovery and remodeling.
Methods And Results: We prospectively randomized 111 patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction to either standard or thrombus-aspiration PCI.