Publications by authors named "V Scarabeo"
Article Synopsis
- The Italian Society of Echography and Cardiovascular Imaging (SIECVI) conducted a national survey to investigate stress echocardiography (SE) practices across Italy, collecting data from 228 laboratories in November 2022.
- The survey revealed that out of 179 centers performing SE, most were located in northern Italy, and the study categorized them into low, moderate, and high volume of activity based on the number of SE examinations.
- Key findings indicated differences in the use of stressors, with a tendency for high-volume centers to employ multiple stress techniques and incorporate advanced evaluations like coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) more frequently than low and moderate volume centers.
Background: The Italian Society of Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Imaging (SIECVI) conducted a national survey to understand better how different echocardiographic modalities are used and accessed in Italy.
Methods: We analyzed echocardiography laboratory activities over a month (November 2022). Data were retrieved via an electronic survey based on a structured questionnaire, uploaded on the SIECVI website.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates how echocardiographic laboratories in Italy were organized and operated during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing it to the same period in 2019.
- Findings show significant reductions in both hospital and outpatient echocardiographic activities, with many labs partially or fully interrupted during the pandemic.
- Safety measures improved for operators, with a widespread use of personal protective equipment, and the study noted an increase in outpatient waiting times for echocardiograms and a rise in the use of point-of-care cardiac ultrasound during the pandemic.
Background: Sensitivity of dipyridamole stress echocardiography (SE) is often lower than required. The aim of the present work is the evaluation of the association of dipyridamole and exercise echocardiography.
Methods: From June 2007 to January 2011, 259 consecutive patients referred to Camposampiero Echocardiography Laboratory underwent SE.
Microbubbles contrast inside the cyst: a pathognomonic sign of mitral valve blood cyst.
J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown)
April 2010
We report a case of giant blood cyst originating from the anterior mitral valve leaflet in an 18-year-old white girl. Contrast real-time transthoracic echocardiogram showed the presence of microbubbles inside the cystic cavity during diastole, confirming the presence of blood passage between the ventricular cavity and the cyst lumen and suggesting that this is a pathognomonic sign of the presence of a blood cyst. Although, in previous cases, contrast microbubbles inside the cyst have been described during systole, we report the presence of microbubbles during diastole.
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