Intrahospital organizational model of remote monitoring data sharing, for a global management of patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices: a document of the Italian Association of Arrhythmology and Cardiac Pacing.

: In recent years, the increasing number of patients with a cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) has required different approaches in terms of the device's control and surveillance. It is increasingly difficult to keep the traditional in-office protocol device's control: we must think of a different organization dedicated to the activity of remote control and monitoring (RC/RM) of devices and patients.A CIED team structured with nurses, technicians and physicians should be organized inside the hospital, with the aim of CIED patients' managing and of creating a network between the various departments.

Pacemaker dependency after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: incidence, predictors and long-term outcomes.

Aims: The aims of this study were to determine the appropriateness of permanent pacemaker implantation (PPI) after TAVI through an analysis of PM dependency at follow-up, and to assess long-term outcomes of patients undergoing PPI after TAVI.

Methods And Results: From June 2007 to February 2018, 1,116 consecutive patients without prior PM underwent TAVI in our institution. We assessed the incidence and predictors of PM dependency of patients who underwent PPI within 30 days, and also the six-year outcomes among patients who did not undergo PPI at 30 days.

[Monitoring of heavy metals and trace elements in the air, fruits and vegetables and soil in the province of Catania (Italy)].

Contamination of fruits and vegetables with heavy metals can result from anthropogenic events (car or factory emissions, poor management of sewage and industrial waste) or from natural events (volcanic activity and geological soil matrix). The chemical and toxicological characteristics of heavy metals can have an impact on human health through several mechanisms. Other metals, on the other hand, are essential for maintenance of physiological and biochemical human processes, are protective against many diseases and must be present in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the human body.

[The prevention of Ochratossina A (OTA A) in the wine].

The expansion of global market has recalled more and more the attention of the researchers on the presence of mycotoxins in the foodstuff. Trying to limit the damages to the health and the correlated economic losses the European Community has legislated fixing more restrictive limits for the presence of mycotoxins in the single food products; and, specifically the limits of presence of Ochratoxin A (OTA A) in the wines have been established by the rule EEC 123 / 2005. With the purpose to prevent the formation of OTA á in the wine (from the grape to the bottled product), has been conducted, a study to compare the different techniques currently used, as the Good Agricultural Practices (BPA), the Good Practices of Manufacture (BPF) and the Good Practices of storage (BPS) with the system of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP), nowadays used only from the begin of the phase of processing of the agricultural products.