Publications (19)12.1 Total impact
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Article: Valvular replacement in a pediatric population: an Italian multicenter study.
The Journal of heart valve disease 06/2004; 13 Suppl 1:S84-5. · 0.81 Impact Factor -
Article: Double-outlet right ventricle with intact ventricular septum.
Italian heart journal: official journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiology 10/2001; 2(9):717. -
Article: Anomalous extension of ductal tissue within the pulmonary artery.
Cardiology in the Young 06/2001; 11(3):364-5. · 0.76 Impact Factor -
Article: [Telemedicine in neonatal emergencies].
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ABSTRACT: Telemedicine is the transmission of medical notices and images among remote sites, that uses adequate audio-video systems. To increase the quality and the amount of medical informations, avoiding unnecessary carriages. Among main fields of interest in Telemedicine, monitoring of cardiovascular parameters and medical emergency represent situations that need to be promptly and appropriately approached. In such a similar conditions, a preliminary transmission to III level Health Institutions of informations as Electrocardiograms or even Echocardiograms may play an essential role in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of emergent cardiovascular disease. Since March 1998, an Audio-Video PC-based system that uses integrated services digital network (ISDN) at a bandwith of 384 Kbps, was installed at Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Department of Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bari, Italy. On July 1999, thanks to Research Funds of the Health Ministry of Italy, similar audio-video systems that use ISDN were installed in the main pediatric institutions of provinces of Puglia and linked in a wide area network. We report the experience of Telemedicine of a Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, and we try to analyze its impact on improvement of quality of care, once employed in provincial field.Acta bio-medica: Atenei Parmensis 02/2000; 71 Suppl 1:663-5. -
Article: Right pulmonary artery development after modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (MBTS) in infants with pulmonary atresia, VSD and confluent pulmonary arteries.
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ABSTRACT: The ideal palliation for infants with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect and confluent pulmonary arteries should promote normal development of the pulmonary artery branches. In 26 patients who survived a modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (MBTS) in the first year of life, the right pulmonary artery was measured before and after operation by two dimensional (2D) echocardiography. In each patient its size was compared to the normal value for the same body surface area. The patients were divided according to this ratio and according to the real size (mm). Although increased in all cases but two, the size of the right pulmonary artery remained remarkably less than normal in patients with an initially small right pulmonary artery. In view of these results, early palliative enlargement of the right ventricular outflow tract is probably advisable in infants with diminutive pulmonary arteries who do not show adequate pulmonary branch development after MBTS.European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 02/1989; 3(1):12-5. · 2.55 Impact Factor -
Article: Bacterial endocarditis of the aortic valve associated with diaphragmatic sub-aortic stenosis--account of two operated cases.
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ABSTRACT: We report two cases of subvalvular aortic stenosis associated with a postendocarditic aortic valvular insufficiency. Although the aortic valvular disease had been diagnosed preoperatively, only the direct intraoperative observation and the histological examination of the removed valve revealed evidence of the endocarditis. Because of the seriously altered condition of the valvular tissue, treatment in both cases consisted of implantation of a mechanical prosthesis. Follow-up revealed no evidence of septic relapse.International Journal of Cardiology 08/1984; 6(1):84-6. · 7.08 Impact Factor -
Article: [Valvulotomy and valvulectomy. Long-term results after surgical treatment of severe pulmonary valve stenosis in patients under 2 years].
Minerva cardioangiologica 10/1983; 31(9):495-7. -
Article: [Cold agglutinins in a cardiosurgical patient: a successfully operated case].
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ABSTRACT: A technique is described for providing myocardial protection with cold cardioplegia in a patient with cold autoagglutinins. The operation was done in normothermia and the coronary system was perfused with a normothermic (+37 degrees C) NaCl 0,9% solution to remove the blood before in it introducing the cold (+4 degrees C) cardioplegic solution. With this technique, the patient underwent an uneventful operation to relieve right ventricular-outflow stenosis operation.Giornale italiano di cardiologia 09/1983; 13(8):122-4. -
Article: Ostium secundum atrial septal defect: is it a minor cardiac lesion?
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ABSTRACT: One-hundred-ten cases of ostium secundum atrial septal defect, surgically treated from 1975 to 1980, are reported. The early postoperative deaths were two (1.81%), both due to acute left ventricular failure. In the postoperative complications, along with arrhythmia, is left ventricular failure markedly represented (4 cases). These observations can be suggestive of a major role of left ventricular function in the natural course of atrial septal defect and its treatment, and could emphasize the importance of preoperative left ventricular study, effective intraoperative myocardial protection, and early operation (age two years), in order to prevent left ventricular involvement and failure.The Italian journal of surgical sciences / sponsored by Società italiana di chirurgia 02/1983; 13(2):149-52. -
Article: [Mesenteric syndrome following the repair of aortic coarctation. Pathogenetic and clinical findings].
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ABSTRACT: Two cases of mesenteric syndrome were observed in 41 patients undergoing correction of aortic coarctation at the School of Heart and Large Vessel Surgery of the 1st Medical Faculty of Naples University. In the light of the latest theories regarding the pathogenesis of the mesenteric syndrome, post-operative arterial hypertension is held to be a decisive factor in the genesis of the complication. Control of pressure is therefore believed to be of considerable importance in the prevention and treatment of the syndrome.Minerva medica 04/1981; 72(12):767-70. · 0.90 Impact Factor -
Article: [The preoperative evaluation of factors influencing low output syndrome in cardiac surgery (author's transl)].
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ABSTRACT: For a preoperative evaluation of the factors influencing low output syndrome significatively in open heart surgery where statistically studied 15 factors upon a pattern of 400 patients operated with extracorporeal circulation: age, sex, weight; functional class; cyanosis; pulmonary hypertension; cardiopathy; arterial blood hypertension; myocardiopathy; left ventricular end-diastolic pressure; cardiac index; cardiothoracic index; aortic clamp duration; reoperation; extracorporeal circulation technique. Significant risk factors are: myocardiopathy; aortic clamp duration; functional class; pulmonary hypertension; reoperation; cardiac index; cardiothoracic index and arterial blood hypertension. These factors increase the studied pattern mean risk respectively of a 17.6%; 27.8%; 17.5%; 14.5%; 13.7%; 10.7%; 8.8% and 8.7%. Also myocardial protection technique was considered to be a significant risk factor, since mean risk for low output syndrome is much higher for these patients operated with the coronary perfusion, normothermy and simple hypothermy than for those operated with hypothermia and pharmacologic cardioplegia.Giornale italiano di cardiologia 02/1980; 10(4):393-8. -
Article: ["Restitutio and integrum" in a case of acute peripheral arterial insufficiency treated with heparin].
Minerva cardioangiologica 01/1980; 27(12):815-6. -
Article: [Our experience in treatment of the inhibition of demand pacemaker by muscle potentials (author's transl)].
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ABSTRACT: The inhibition of demand pacemakers by muscular potentials is rarely described in the literature. The Authors have found an interference of the pectoralis muscle's electric activity with pacemakers in 4 patients suffering from occasional faints. Extending this study to a group of 10 asymptomatic electrostimulated patients, pacemaker's inhibition by sub-maximal contraction of pectoralis major muscle has been found in 9 of them. The 4 symptomatic patients have been operated displacing the battery near the sternum. The poor thickness of the pectoralis muscle's fibres suggested the treatment. The controls performed from 2 to 8 months respectively have shown disappearance of the symptoms.Giornale italiano di cardiologia 02/1978; 8 Suppl 1:318-22. -
Article: [The surgical treatment of Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (author's transl)].
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ABSTRACT: Three cases of congenital angiodysplasies of the extremities, classified as Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, underwent to surgical treatment. These cases, clinically similar, have shown a quite different pathogenesis, according to which the surgical treatment has been modified. Once again we recommend a complete diagnostic study every time one find varicosities of the extremities which are atipical for time of appearance, territories involved or for aspect and thus be congenital varicosities with complex pathogenesis.Giornale italiano di cardiologia 02/1978; 8(11):1177-81. -
Article: [Surgical revascularization of the celiac-mesenteric region in impending intestinal infarct].
Bollettino della Società italiana di cardiologia 02/1976; 21(1):71-4. -
Article: [Valve replacement in pediatric cardiosurgery].
Archivio Monaldi per la tisiologia e le malattie dell'apparato respiratorio 41:75-83. -
Article: [Pulmonary and aortic autograft: use in heart surgery].
Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace 43(4):349-54. -
Article: [Pulmonary and aortic autograft: method of preparation and conservation].
Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace 43(4):339-47. -
Article: [Cardiac malformations as factors predisposing to respiratory diseases].
Archivio Monaldi per le malattie del torace 44(1-3):269-76.
