Publications by authors named "Marco Pano"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to compare early and late mortality rates in patients with acute isolated tricuspid valve infective endocarditis (TVIE) who underwent either valve repair or replacement.
- A total of 149 patients from a larger registry were evaluated, revealing a 9% early mortality rate and showing that valve repair had lower mortality and complication rates compared to replacement, although these differences were not statistically significant.
- The research concluded that both surgical options resulted in low recurrence rates and good long-term survival for TVIE patients, indicating that the type of surgery has minimal impact on overall outcomes.
Background: The aim of this multicenter prospective study was to evaluate the prognostic weight of preoperative right ventricular assessment on early mortality in cardiac surgery.
Methods: This is a multicenter prospective observational study performed by the Italian Group of Research for Outcome in Cardiac Surgery (GIROC) including 11 centers. From October 2017 to March 2019, out of 923 patients undergoing cardiac surgery, 28 patients with some missing data were excluded and 895 patients were enrolled in the study right ventricular dilatation was defined as a basal end-diastolic diameter >42 mm.
The Role of Ivabradine in Cardiac Rehabilitation in Patients With Recent Coronary Artery Bypass Graft.
J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther
November 2015
Background: Little is known about ivabradine in cardiac rehabilitation in patients with coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).
Methods: In this prospective, randomized study, suitable patients admitted for cardiac rehabilitation after recent CABG were randomized to ivabradine 5 mg twice a day + standard medical therapy including bisoprolol 1.25 mg once daily (group I-BB, n = 38) or standard medical therapy including bisoprolol 2.
Background: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of left anterior small thoracotomy for treatment of isolated chronic total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery.
Methods: From November 21, 1994, to December 31, 2002, 143 patients with isolated left anterior descending artery chronic occlusion underwent off-pump surgery through left anterior small thoracotomy. Safety was evaluated analyzing 30-day mortality, major adverse cardiac events, and major complications; efficacy was evaluated analyzing 6-month angiographic results and 12-month survival, freedom from cardiac death, freedom from acute myocardial infarction, either in all areas or in the grafted one, freedom from redo or percutaneous coronary intervention, freedom from target vessel revascularization, and freedom from major adverse cardiac events and from any event.
Objective: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the possibility to predict postoperative graft patency in coronary surgery by means of intraoperative transit-time flow measurement.
Methods: Of 3567 patients submitted to isolated myocardial revascularization from June 1997 through June 2003, 157 (4.4%) underwent both intraoperative transit-time flow measurement and angiography at follow-up.
Objectives: We sought to evaluate whether early and late results in patients who underwent off-pump or on-pump myocardial revascularization with bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting were similar.
Methods: From November 1994 through December 2001, 1835 patients underwent isolated myocardial revascularization with bilateral internal thoracic artery grafting. By applying propensity score pairwise matching, 1194 patients were selected and operated on either off pump (n = 597) or on pump (n = 597).
Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate early and late results of reoperative coronary artery bypass grafting compared with those of first coronary artery bypass grafting.
Methods: From November 21, 1994, to December 31, 2001, 4,381 patients underwent isolated coronary revascularization: among these patients, 274 (6.3%) underwent a redo.
Background: The safety of teaching off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting to trainees is best tested in high-risk patients, who are more likely to experience significant morbidity after surgery. This study compared outcomes of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting operations performed by consultants and trainees in high-risk patients.
Methods: Data for consecutive patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting were collected prospectively.
Background: Septoexclusion is a technique described by Guilmet in the mid 1980s. Its indications and midterm results are evaluated and compared to those obtained with the Dor operation.
Methods: From January 1998 to April 2001, 79 patients had an exclusion of scars following myocardial infarction in left anterior descending artery (LAD) territory.
Background: The impact of aortic manipulation on incidence of cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) was evaluated in patients who underwent myocardial revascularization.
Methods: From January 1988 to December 2000, 4,875 patients had coronary operations; 33 who survived less than 24 hours and 19 who had aortic cannulation without cross-clamping were excluded. According to the degree of aortic manipulation, patients were divided into two groups: group A, aortic cannulation, cross-clamping, with (A1, n = 597) or without (A2, n = 2,233) side-clamping, and group B, with (B1, n = 460) or without (B2, n = 1,533) side-clamping.