Publications by authors named "V Miraglia"
In early 2022, the confirmed presence of African swine fever (ASF) circulating in wild boars in mainland Italy and subsequently found in domestic pigs led to several changes regarding the export of pork and pork products to countries outside the European Union (non-EU). The sector suffered the complete and immediate closure of the markets of some countries, often without the measure being communicated in the forms stipulated by international agreements. Indeed, compliance with the current EU regulations does not guarantee the possibility of exporting to non-EU countries.
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- - The study examined 500 patients with Brugada syndrome (BrS) to evaluate the genetic variants' presence and their relation to prognosis, discovering that about 20.8% had pathogenic variants in the SCN5A gene, which indicate a worse outcome.
- - Of the patients analyzed, 75 were found to have a gene variant, with the majority being missense variants; however, those without any genetic variants showed better protection against ventricular arrhythmias (VA).
- - The findings concluded that carrying a predicted loss of function variant—either in the SCN5A gene or other related genes—was a significant factor in predicting the likelihood of experiencing VA.
Image segmentation is a well-known image processing task that consists of partitioning an image into homogeneous areas. It is applied to remotely sensed imagery for many problems such as land use classification and landscape changes. Recently, several hybrid remote sensing image segmentation techniques have been proposed that include metaheuristic approaches in order to increase the segmentation accuracy; however, the critical point of these approaches is the high computational complexity, which affects time and memory consumption.
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- The study compares the anatomy of pulmonary veins (PVs) between patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) and persistent atrial fibrillation (PeAF) using cardiac computed tomography (CCT).
- It found that patients with PeAF have larger PV ostial areas and different anatomical orientations compared to those with PAF, indicating significant variability in anatomical characteristics.
- Understanding these differences could help in selecting the right catheter and technology for more effective ablation procedures in PeAF treatment.