Ex vivo heart perfusion: an updated systematic review.

Due to the discrepancy between patients awaiting a heart transplant and the availability of donor hearts, strategies to expand the donor pool and improve the transplant's success are crucial. This review aims to summarize current knowledge on the ex vivo heart preservation (EVHP) experience as an alternative to standard cold static storage (CSS). EVHP techniques can improve the preservation of the donor's heart before transplantation and allow for pre-transplant organ evaluation.

Italian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of colonic diverticulosis and diverticular disease.

Colonic diverticulosis and diverticular disease are among the most common gastrointestinal disorders encountered in clinical practice. These Italian guidelines focus on the diagnosis and management of diverticulosis and diverticular disease in the adult population, providing practical and evidence-based recommendations for clinicians. Experts from five Italian scientific societies, constituting a multidisciplinary panel, conducted a comprehensive review of meta-analyses, systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials, and observational studies to formulate 14 PICO questions.

Corrigendum: Adherence to European society of gastrointestinal endoscopy quality performance measures for upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy: a nationwide survey from the Italian society of digestive endoscopy.

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Transannular bovine jugular vein monocusp for the reconstruction of severe right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.

Objective: Severe right ventricular outflow tract obstruction in tetralogy of Fallot and variants necessitates the use of transannular patch in a significant proportion of children undergoing repair. We have used a Contegra monocusp together with delamination of native leaflet tissue in order to create a functioning pulmonary valve.

Methods: In total, 18 (2017-2022) consecutive Contegra monocusp implantations were included.

Newly designed OTS Clip for preventing fully-covered self-expandable metal stent migration in the gastrointestinal tract.

Fully-covered self-expandable metal stents (FCSEMS) are frequently used for endoscopic management of gastrointestinal lesions. However, stent migration occurs in up to one-third of patients. Different tools are used to anchor stents to prevent migration.

Surgical correction of partial anomalous left superior pulmonary venous connection to the innominate vein.

Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection is reported to occur in 0.4 to 0.7% of children.

An Italian prospective multicenter study on colonoscopy practice and quality: What has changed in the last 10 years.

Background: A relevant number of adenomas can be missed during colonoscopy.

Aims: Assess the current status of colonoscopy procedures in Italian centers.

Methods: A prospective observational study involving 17 hospitals (34 endoscopists) included consecutive patients undergoing standard colonoscopy.

Quality performance measures in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy for lesion detection: Italian AIGO-SIED-SIGE joint position statement.

Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) plays a crucial role in the management of gastroduodenal diseases by allowing a direct and accurate evaluation of the mucosa and the execution of several operative maneuvers. Despite a constant development of new imaging tools and operative devices, the widespread use of EGD has not resulted in a significant reduction of mortality for patients affected by esophageal/gastric cancer during the last three decades in Western countries. Evidence indicates that this disheartening scenario derives from a high variability of execution of EGD which determines its quality and diagnostic yield, delaying the diagnosis of neoplastic diseases.

Cap-assisted EMR versus standard inject and cut EMR for treatment of large colonic laterally spreading tumors: a randomized multicenter study (with videos).

Background And Aims: Piecemeal EMR of colorectal laterally spreading tumors (LSTs) >20 mm is effective. Experience is limited in the use of cap-assisted EMR (EMR-C) for resection of colonic lesions. We compared the efficacy and the safety of EMR-C for the removal of colonic LSTs ≥30 mm with "inject-and-cut" standard EMR (EMR-S).

Repair of a remote pericommissural anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery.

We demonstrate a classic trapdoor technique to correct a late-presenting remote pericommissural anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery. The merits of the technique compared to alternative techniques are explained. The impact of late diagnosis on left ventricular function as well as on papillary muscle ischemia-induced mitral regurgitation is evident.

Adherence to European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Quality Performance Measures for Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: A Nationwide Survey From the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy.

Background: The quality of gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy has been recently identified as a major priority being associated with many outcomes and patient's experience.

Objective: To assess adherence of endoscopists to the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) quality performance measures for upper and lower GI endoscopy in Italy.

Methods: All endoscopist members of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED) were invited from October 2018 to December 2018 to participate to a self-administered questionnaire-based survey.

Multisocieties position paper: Microbiological surveillance on flexible endoscopes.

Transmission with endoscopes, particularly duodenoscope, of potential lethal infections prompted different scientific societies to deliver recommendations aimed reducing this risk. Some International societies extended recommendations on microbial surveillance to all the endoscopes and devices used in the reprocessing procedure. Considering the relevance of the topic, 8 Italian scientific societies of physicians, nurses and technical operators prepared a concerted document taking into account Institutional advisories and facilities in Italy.

Factors associated with risk of COVID-19 contagion for endoscopy healthcare workers: A survey from the Italian society of digestive endoscopy.

Background And Aims: The present study was aimed to assess the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and associated factors among HCWs in endoscopy centers in Italy.

Methods: All members of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED) were invited to participate to a questionnaire-based survey during the first months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.

Results: 314/1306 (24%) SIED members accounting for 201/502 (40%) endoscopic centers completed the survey.

Changes in digestive cancer diagnosis during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy: A nationwide survey.

Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a huge impact on healthcare systems, resulting in many routine diagnostic procedures either being halted or postponed.

Aims: To evaluate whether the diagnoses of colorectal, gastric and pancreatic cancers have been impacted by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Italy.

Methods: A survey designed to collect the number of histologically-proven diagnoses of the three cancers in gastroenterology services across Italy from January 1 to October 31 in 2017-2020.

Evaluation of main functional dyspepsia symptoms after probiotic administration in patients receiving conventional pharmacological therapies.

Objective: Postprandial distress syndrome (PDS) and epigastric pain syndrome (EPS) are the two main forms of functional dyspepsia (FD). Probiotics are a promising therapy for FD, but current data remains heterogeneous. This work aims to evaluate a probiotic combination of LR04 (DSM 16605), LPS01 (DSM 21980), LP01 (LMG P-21021), and subsp.

Attending Training Courses on Barrett's Esophagus Improves Adherence to Guidelines: A Survey from the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy.

Background: Little is known on practice patterns of endoscopists for the management of Barrett's esophagus (BE) over the last decade.

Aims: Our aim was to assess practice patterns of endoscopists for the diagnosis, surveillance and treatment of BE.

Methods: All members of the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SIED) were invited to participate to a questionnaire-based survey.

Two-stage repair of interrupted aortic arch type A: Arch reconstruction and pulmonary artery banding without CPB through a left thoracotomy.

Treatment of interrupted aortic arch (IAA) is inherently challenging. Single-stage complete repair has become the norm in contemporary practice.  While palliation, in general, has fallen out of favor, a 2-stage approach to correcting selected type A IAA appears to be a productive, safe, and effective option, considering the neonatal age at repair.

Safety in digestive endoscopy procedures in the covid era recommendations in progres of the italian society of digestive endoscopy.

The new corona virus disease has started in Wuhan - China at the end of 2019 and quickly spread with a pandemic trend across the rest of the world. The scientific community is making an extraordinary effort to study and control the situation, but the results are just partial. Based on the most recent scientific literature and strong statements by the most prestigious international health institutions, the Italian Society of Digestive Endoscopy has drawn up some recommendations about the use of personal protective equipment, the correct way of dressing and undressing of endoscopists and nurses, before and after digestive endoscopy procedures.

HPV screening performance indicators in women who previously tested HPV-negative: The second round of Vallecamonica screening programme, Northern Italy.

Objective: To present performance indicators from the second round of the Vallecamonica-Sebino HPV screening programme in women who had tested negative about four years earlier (mean 45 months).

Methods: From 2010 to 2012, the target female population (aged 25-64) was invited to the first HPV screening round. In 2013-2017, women were rescreened for the second round.

Left ventricular unloading during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation - Impella versus atrial septal defect: A simulation study.

Background: Atrial septal defect and Impella have been proposed for left ventricular unloading in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients. This work aims at evaluating the haemodynamic changes in venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation patients after Impella implantation or atrial septal defect realization by a simulation study.

Methods: A lumped parameter model of the cardiovascular system was adapted to this study.

Post-surgical intestinal dysbiosis: use of an innovative mixture (Lactobacillus plantarum LP01, Lactobacillus lactis subspecies cremoris LLC02, Lactobacillus delbrueckii LDD01).

Abdominal surgery represents a high risk for hospital-acquired infections and complication that may compromise the surgery outcome. Patients with recent abdominal surgery have an intestinal dysbiosis. There is evidence that probiotics may counterbalance the impaired microbiota.

Lactobacillus plantarum LP01, Lactobacillus lactis subspecies cremoris LLC02, and Lactobacillus delbrueckii LDD01) in patients undergoing bowel preparation.

Bowel preparation (BP) for colonoscopy induces significantly changes in gut microbiota and elicit intestinal symptoms. Impaired microbiota causes an intestinal dysbiosis. Consequently, probiotics may counterbalance the disturbed microbiota after BP.

Abincol® (Lactobacillus plantarum LP01, Lactobacillus lactis subspecies cremoris LLC02, Lactobacillus delbrueckii LDD01), an oral nutraceutical, pragmatic use in patients with chronic intestinal disorders.

Chronic intestinal disorders (CID), including inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and diverticular disease (DD), are diseases that relapse episodes. There is evidence that patients with CID have intestinal dysbiosis, so probiotics may counterbalance the impaired microbiota. Therefore, the current survey evaluated the efficacy and safety of Abincol®, an oral nutraceutical containing a probiotic mixture with Lactobacillus plantarum LP01 (1 billion of living cells), Lactobacillus lactis subspecies cremoris LLC02 (800 millions of living cells), and Lactobacillus delbrueckii LDD01 (200 millions of living cells), in 3,460 outpatients (1,660 males and 1,800 females, mean age 55 years) with chronic intestinal disorders.

First-line endoscopic treatment with over-the-scope clips in patients with either upper or lower gastrointestinal bleeding: a multicenter study.

Endoscopic treatment is the mainstay approach for gastrointestinal bleeding, in either upper (UGIB) or lower (LGIB) tract. The over-the-scope clip (OTSC) may overcome limitations of standard clips or thermocoagulation in high-risk bleeding lesions. We evaluate the main clinically relevant outcomes following endoscopic hemostasis with OTSC in high-risk lesions and/or patients.