Publications by authors named "Giulio Prati"
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- Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is often underdiagnosed and leads to severe cholesterol issues and early heart problems, with the first sign usually being a serious heart event like acute coronary syndrome.
- A study examined the prevalence of clinical FH in patients under 50 who suffered premature heart attacks and compared it to a control group of the same age.
- Results showed that FH was significantly more common in the MI patients (6%) compared to the general population (0.16%), indicating a strong need for better FH screening after heart attacks to improve treatment and identify at-risk family members.
Data whether the COVID-19 outbreak impacts the acute coronary syndromes (ACS) admissions and the time required to reverse the downward curve are scarce. We included all consecutive patients referred for an ACS who underwent PCI from February 17, 2020 to April 26, 2020 in a high-volume PCI coronary care unit. We compared the number of ACS patients in 2020 to the same period in 2018 and 2019.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although octogenarians constitute a fast-growing portion of cardiovascular patients, few data are available on the outcome of patients aged ≥85 years with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI).
Methods And Results: We analyzed 126 consecutive patients aged ≥85 years (age 88±2 years) with STEMI, undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) within 12 hours from symptoms onset. Long-term follow-up (median 898 days) was obtained for the 102 patients surviving the index-hospitalization.
: In this report, we present a rare case of cardiac echinococcosis presenting with cerebral haemorrhage due to rupture of a mycotic aneurysm in a peripheral branch of the media cerebral artery. Further investigations lead to discovery of multiple cysts in the heart and liver. The complementary use of transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography, MRI and computed tomography lead to the final diagnosis of disseminated echinococcosis and allowed precise evaluation of the anatomical and structural characteristics of the cardiac mass, its boundaries and its relationship with the surrounding anatomic structures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Analysis of right ventricular (RV) regional dysfunction by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in arrhythmogenic RV cardiomyopathy (ARVC) may be inadequate because of the complex contraction pattern of the RV. Aim of this study was to determine the use of RV strain and dyssynchrony assessment in ARVC using feature-tracking CMR analysis.
Methods And Results: Thirty-two consecutive patients with ARVC referred to CMR imaging were included.