Effect of statins on the progression of bioprosthetic aortic valve degenerationFrancesco Antonini-Canterin
Unita Operativa di Cardiologia, A R C, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
Am J Cardiol 92:1479-82. 2003
..We examined the effect of statin treatment on bioprosthetic aortic valve degeneration and found a beneficial effect of statins in slowing bioprosthetic degeneration...
- Effect of hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme-a reductase inhibitors on the long-term progression of rheumatic mitral valve disease
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale, 24, 33170 Pordenone, Italy
Circulation 121:2130-6. 2010
..At present, no medical therapy is known to affect the progression of rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS). We sought to assess the effect of statin treatment on long-term progression of MS in a large population...
- Prognostic value of ventricular-arterial coupling and B-type natriuretic peptide in patients after myocardial infarction: a five-year follow-up study
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 22:1239-45. 2009
..The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic role of ventricular-arterial coupling compared with B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients after myocardial infarctions...
- Hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme-a reductase inhibitors delay the progression of rheumatic aortic valve stenosis a long-term echocardiographic study
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
J Am Coll Cardiol 53:1874-9. 2009
..This study sought to assess the effect of hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme-A reductase inhibitors (statins) on the progression of rheumatic aortic valve stenosis...
- Stage-related effect of statin treatment on the progression of aortic valve sclerosis and stenosis
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia Association for Research in Cardiology, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
Am J Cardiol 102:738-42. 2008
..These results suggest that statin therapy should be taken into consideration in the early stages of this common disease...
- Symptomatic aortic stenosis: does systemic hypertension play an additional role?
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Unita Operativa di Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale 24, 33170 Pordenone, Italy
Hypertension 41:1268-72. 2003
..It could suggest that in patients with coexisting hypertension and aortic stenosis, hypertension should be treated more aggressively to delay the occurrence of symptoms, and these patients should be followed-up more closely...
- Asymptomatic isolated congenital left ventricular muscular diverticulum in an adult: a case report
Guoqian Huang
Unita Operativa di Cardiologia, A R C, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale 24, 33170 Pordenone, Italy
Echocardiography 20:191-5. 2003
..The diagnosis was confirmed by cardiac catheterization. There were no other thoracoabdominal or cardiac anomalies, the patient was asymptomatic, and surgery was not deemed necessary...
- Echo-tracking assessment of carotid artery stiffness in patients with aortic valve stenosis
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
Echocardiography 26:823-31. 2009
..There is little information about mechanical properties of large arteries in patients (pts) with aortic stenosis (AS)...
- Use of the ejection fraction-velocity ratio in the hemodynamic assessment of aortic bioprosthetic valves
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Unità Operativa di Cardiologia ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
Echocardiography 23:97-102. 2006
..There is no information about the reliability of EFVR in assessing aortic EOA in patients with bioprostheses...
- Thrombus in the right atrial appendage during pulmonary and paradoxical embolism: a case report
Guoqian Huang
S Maria degli Angeli Hospital, ARC, Pordenone, Italy
Ital Heart J 3:486-9. 2002
..The patient's clinical conditions dramatically improved after anticoagulant therapy...
- Association between carotid and coronary artery disease in patients with aortic valve stenosis: an angiographic study
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
Angiology 60:596-600. 2009
..Patients with aortic stenosis have a high prevalence of coronary artery disease, but there is little information about the association of coronary artery disease and carotid artery disease...
- Progression of aortic valve sclerosis to aortic stenosis
Pompilio Faggiano
Divisione di Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera Santa Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
Am J Cardiol 91:99-101. 2003
- Heart failure in patients with aortic stenosis: clinical and prognostic significance of carbohydrate antigen 125 and brain natriuretic peptide measurement
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale, 24 33170 Pordenone, Italy
Int J Cardiol 128:406-12. 2008
..Carbohydrate antigen 125 (CA125) demonstrated recently a BNP-like behaviour in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) but has never been studied in AS patients. We aimed to assess the role of CA125 and BNP in AS patients...
- Association between carotid atherosclerosis and metabolic syndrome: results from the ISMIR study
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Preventive Cardiology, ARC, S Maria degli Angeli Hospital, Pordenone, Italy
Angiology 61:443-8. 2010
..Our study confirms the association between MetS and carotid atherosclerosis. In MetS, a significant correlation between carotid IMT and triglycerides and fibrinogen levels was found...
- Value of transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of compressive, atypically located pericardial cysts
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Divisione di Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale 24, 33170 Pordenone, Italy
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 15:192-4. 2002
..A left ventricular thoracotomy was performed with the drainage of 500 mL serous fluid from the cyst...
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy as an 'alternative' approach to a non-operable severe aortic stenosis with left ventricular dysfunction
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Cardiologia, ARC, Azienda Ospedaliera S Maria degli Angeli, Pordenone, Italy
J Heart Valve Dis 15:206-8. 2006
..The case is presented of a patient with non-operable severe symptomatic AS and cardiac dissynchrony who showed significant improvement following the implantation of a biventricular pacemaker...
- Left ventricular torsional dynamics in aortic stenosis: relationship between left ventricular untwisting and filling pressures. A two-dimensional speckle tracking study
Bogdan A Popescu
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
Eur J Echocardiogr 11:406-13. 2010
..We sought to assess the relationship between LV untwisting and LV filling pressures in patients with severe AS and normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) using speckle tracking echocardiography...
- Prognostic role of left atrial volume in elderly patients with symptomatic stable chronic heart failure: comparison with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and B-type natriuretic peptide
Bogdan A Popescu
Prof Dr C C Iliescu Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Bucharest, Romania
Echocardiography 24:1035-43. 2007
..LVDD was graded using a comprehensive Doppler algorithm. Blood taken before echocardiography was assayed for BNP levels. Primary end point was combined: all-cause mortality and hospitalization for worsening HF...
- Arterial stiffness and ventricular stiffness: a couple of diseases or a coupling disease? A review from the cardiologist's point of view
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
Division of Cardiology, ARC, S Maria degli Angeli Hospital, Via Montereale, 24, 33170 Pordenone, Italy
Eur J Echocardiogr 10:36-43. 2009
..We overviewed main methods and indices used to estimate arterial stiffness and aimed to provide an insight into the knowledge of the ventricular-arterial coupling from the cardiologist's point of view...
- [The effects of implementation of heart failure guidelines in the Pordenone province: analysis of the results following databases of the regional health guide system]
Rita Piazza
Laboratorio di Ecocardiografia U O di Cardiologia, A O S Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale, 24, 33170 Pordenone
Ital Heart J Suppl 5:366-75. 2004
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of heart failure guideline implementation in the Pordenone province area, by using the regional health system databases...
- [Hemodynamic progression of aortic valve stenosis in the adult: implications of the clinical management of asymptomatic patients]
Francesco Antonini-Canterin
U.O. di Cardiologia, Associazione per la Ricerca in Cardiologia, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Maria degli Angeli, Via Montereale, 24, 33170 Pordenone
Ital Heart J Suppl 3:478-85. 2002
..Another important point to clarify is the management of patients with mild or moderate aortic stenosis undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery...
