Publications by authors named "Federica Tempestini"
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- Preoperative echocardiographic assessments are essential for patients with severe mitral regurgitation, and this study compares the effectiveness of 3D transthoracic echocardiography (3D TTE) to 3D transesophageal echocardiography (3D TEE) in diagnosing valvular issues against surgical findings.
- A total of 60 patients scheduled for mitral valve repair underwent both imaging techniques, and while both methods showed high accuracy, 3D TEE outperformed 3D TTE in detecting multiple chordal ruptures.
- Results indicated that while 3D TTE and 3D TEE provided similar findings for static parameters of the mitral annulus, they differed
Background: a wider left main bifurcation angle (LMBA) has been linked to severe plaque development in the proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD). This study aimed to identify predictors of severe proximal LAD stenosis and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) using coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA).
Methods: from an initial cohort of 650 consecutive patients, we analyzed 499 patients who met the inclusion criteria after exclusions.
in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), radial access should be favoured over femoral access as it reduces the risk of vascular complications and bleeding. Furthermore, a preventive role of radial access in the occurrence of acute kidney injury (AKI), mainly mediated by the reduction of bleeding and cholesterol crystal embolization into renal circulation, has been investigated in several studies, yielding conflicting results. we designed a retrospective study to appraise the effect of the use of a vascular access site on the occurrence of AKI in a cohort of 633 patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by PCI at our centre from 2018 to 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Previous studies showed that exercise may increase cardiac troponin serum levels; whether the occurrence of myocardial ischemia influences the changes of exercise-induced troponin raise, however, remains debatable.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled consecutive patients undergoing for the first time an elective stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) because of clinical suspicion of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Patients were divided into 3 groups based on the evidence and degree of stress-induced myocardial ischemia at MPS: 1) group 1, no myocardial ischemia (≤4 %); 2) group 2, mild myocardial ischemia (5-10 %); 3) group 3, moderate-to-severe myocardial ischemia (≥10 %).
Background: The role of lipoprotein(a) (Lp[a]) in risk stratification following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is still debated. We aimed to investigate whether elevated Lp(a) levels in patients with AMI treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are associated with worse outcomes.
Methods: We designed a retrospective registry including patients with AMI undergoing PCI.