Publications by authors named "G Nicolosi"
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- * A total of eight studies involving 303 PE patients and 498 healthy controls showed that MVP prevalence was significantly higher in PE individuals (40.6%) than in controls (12.8%), with an odds ratio of 5.80 indicating a strong association.
- * Subgroup analysis revealed that MVP prevalence was about three times higher in PE children and adolescents compared to PE adults, and the overall results showed high consistency with no significant publication bias.
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- A systematic review examined left atrial mechanics in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) about to undergo electrical cardioversion (ECV), focusing on the effect of AF on left atrial reservoir strain (LASr).
- The analysis included 12 studies with a total of 880 patients, revealing a high ECV success rate of 91.5%, but highlighted that 35.2% of patients experienced AF recurrence within a median follow-up of 5.4 months.
- Key findings indicated that a lower LASr before ECV was linked to higher chances of cardioversion failure and AF recurrence, suggesting that measuring LASr could help predict AF relapse and assess thromboembolic risk in these patients. *
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- - The systematic review analyzed 21 echocardiographic studies to estimate the prevalence of mitral valve prolapse (MVP), finding an overall MVP prevalence of 4.9% across various populations.
- - Older studies (1976-1998) showed a higher MVP prevalence (7.8%), while more recent studies (1999-2021) reported a lower prevalence (2.2%), likely due to differences in diagnostic criteria and potential biases.
- - MVP is generally associated with a low risk of significant complications, although it can be linked to mild mitral regurgitation and minor heart abnormalities, and it occurs less frequently in the general community.
Background And Aim: During the last decade, a small number of studies have used speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) to investigate sarcoidosis effect on left ventricular (LV) mechanics in patients without overt heart disease. The present systematic review and meta-analysis has been primarily designed to summarize the main findings of these studies and to examine the overall influence of sarcoidosis on LV-global longitudinal strain (GLS) and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF).
Methods: All echocardiographic studies assessing conventional echoDoppler parameters and myocardial strain indices in patients with extracardiac sarcoidosis (ECS) vs.