Publications by authors named "Maria Antonietta Ponzetta"
Impact on nurse workload and patient satisfaction of atrioventricular junction ablation performed simultaneously with conduction system pacing using a superior approach from the pocket compared with the conventional femoral approach.
Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- Conduction system pacing (CSP) combined with atrioventricular junction ablation (AVJA) can effectively treat patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF), and a new superior approach (SA) using axillary or subclavian access has been introduced.
- A study involving 119 patients revealed that the SA significantly reduced nurse workload (NWL) in both the electrophysiology lab and ward compared to the traditional femoral access (FA).
- Patients undergoing SA reported higher satisfaction levels regarding their hospital experience and overall evaluation than those with FA, highlighting SA as a favorable alternative for these procedures.
Leadless pacemaker versus transvenous single-chamber pacemaker therapy: peri-procedural aspects, utilization of medical resources and patient acceptance.
Expert Rev Med Devices
May 2021
Background: Leadless pacemaker (L-PM) have been developed in order to overcome the lead- and pocket-related complications associated with transvenous pacemaker (T-PM). The impact of L-PM implantation on the utilization of medical resources, patient comfort and therapy acceptance could differ from that of T-PM.
Research Design And Methods: Prospective, single-center study enrolling 243 consecutive patients undergoing PM implantation.
Reduced long-term overall mortality in heart failure patients with prolonged QRS treated with CRT combined with ICD vs. heart failure patients with narrow QRS treated with ICD only.
Europace
September 2016
Aims: It is not known whether heart failure (HF) patients with prolonged QRS who undergo cardiac resynchronization therapy combined with a defibrillator (CRT-D) have a prognostic advantage over HF patients with narrow QRS (therefore without indication for CRT) treated with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) only. The aim of this study was to compare the long-term mortality of a group of HF patients with prolonged QRS receiving CRT-D with that of a similar group of patients with narrow QRS receiving ICD only.
Methods And Results: A total of 312 patients (mean age 66 ± 13 years; 84% male, mean left ventricular ejection fraction 25 ± 4%, mean New York Heart Association class 2.