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Life-threatening tumors of the heart in fetal and postnatal ageAngela Pucci
Department of Anatomic Pathology, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy Department of Histopathology, OIRM Sant Anna Hospital, Turin, Italy Electronic address
J Pediatr 162:964-969.e1. 2013..The clinical impact of a multidisciplinary approach including 2-D echocardiography, histology, genetics, and cardiac surgery has not yet been fully elucidated...
Incomplete and atypical Kawasaki disease: a clinicopathologic paradox at high risk of sudden and unexpected infant deathAngela Pucci
Department of Pathology, Regina Margherita Pediatric Hospital, Turin, Italy
Pediatr Cardiol 33:802-5. 2012....
PPARγ in coronary atherosclerosis: in vivo expression pattern and correlations with hyperlipidemic status and statin treatmentAngela Pucci
Department of Anatomic, Ultrastructural and Molecular Pathology, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
Atherosclerosis 218:479-85. 2011..Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPARγ) is involved in regulation of macrophage inflammation and in atherosclerosis. Herein we investigate the influence of statin treatment on PPARγ expression in coronary artery disease...
Myocardial insulin-like growth factor-1 and insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 gene expression in failing hearts harvested from patients undergoing cardiac transplantationAngela Pucci
Department of Pathology, Regina Margherita Hospital, Torino, Italy
J Heart Lung Transplant 28:402-5. 2009..Higher IGF-1 mRNA levels were shown only in end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy...
Asymptomatic inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the heart: immunohistochemical profile, differential diagnosis, and review of the literatureAngela Pucci
Department of Pathology, Regina Margherita Hospital, ASO OIRM S Anna, Turin, Italy
Cardiovasc Pathol 18:187-90. 2009..Because of their rarity in the heart, most knowledge is based on extracardiac lesions that have uncertain behaviour...
Angiogenesis, tumor necrosis factor-alpha and procoagulant factors in coronary artery giant aneurysm of a fatal infantile Kawasaki diseaseAngela Pucci
Department of Pathology, Regina Margherita Hospital, Turin 10126, Italy
Cardiovasc Pathol 17:186-9. 2008..Kawasaki disease (KD) is an infantile febrile illness of unknown origin characterized by clinical, laboratory and histopathologic features of systemic vasculitis...
C-reactive protein and coronary composition in patients with percutaneous revascularizationA Pucci
Regina Margherita Hospital, ASO OIRM S Anna, Turin, Italy
Eur J Clin Invest 38:281-9. 2008..Whether serum CRP levels are associated with in vivo atherothrombotic features is unclear. We thus analysed samples from coronary atherectomy specimens obtained during percutaneous coronary intervention...
In vivo coronary plaque histology in patients with stable and acute coronary syndromes: relationships with hyperlipidemic status and statin treatmentAngela Pucci
Pathology Department, Regina Margherita Hospital, Turin, Italy
Atherosclerosis 194:189-95. 2007..Aim of the study was to investigate whether maintained moderate statin treatment influence atheroma, macrophage content, neoangiogenesis and/or haemorrhage in coronary plaques from patients with non-fatal coronary syndromes...
Papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting as a solitary soft tissue arm metastasis in an elderly hyperthyroid patient. Case report and review of the literatureAngela Pucci
Division of Pathology of Regina Margherita Hospital, Torino, Italy
Virchows Arch 448:857-61. 2006..Literature data indicate that PTC in elderly patients is increasing and is often clinically aggressive. Radical surgical and radiometabolic treatments are required also in this age group to improve clinical outcome...
Cytokeratin profile and neuroendocrine cells in the glandular component of cardiac myxomaAngela Pucci
Department of Pathology, Regina Margherita Hospital, Torino, Italy
Virchows Arch 443:618-24. 2003....
Coronary atherosclerotic plaques with and without thrombus in ischemic heart syndromes: a morphologic, immunohistochemical, and biochemical studyE Arbustini
Department of Pathology, Universita di Pavia, Italy
Am J Cardiol 68:36B-50B. 1991..Since platelets adhere to exposed collagen and not to foam cells, the type of exposed substrates could play a major role in thrombosis...
Intra-plaque production of platelet-activating factor correlates with neoangiogenesis in human carotid atherosclerotic lesionsEnrico Lupia
Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, , Torino, Italy
Int J Mol Med 12:327-34. 2003..Our results indicate a local production of PAF within the atherosclerotic plaques and suggest that it may contribute to intra-plaque neoangiogenesis...
Long-standing mild hypertransaminasaemia caused by congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG) type IIxP L Calvo
Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, University of Turin, Regina Margherita Hospital, Piazza Polonia 94, 10126, Turin, Italy
J Inherit Metab Dis 31:S437-40. 2008..Further studies as to the cause of this 'apparently new' CDG, are ongoing. On the basis of our data and a literature review, we suggest that subjects with asymptomatic hypertransaminasaemia be screened for CDG...
Misalignment of lung vessels: diagnostic role of conventional histology and immunohistochemistryAngela Pucci
Department of Pathology, Servizio di Anatomia ed Istologia Patologica, Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita, Piazza Polonia, 94 10126, Torino, Italy
Virchows Arch 442:597-600. 2003....
Ghrelin expression in fetal, infant, and adult human lungMarco Volante
Department of Pathology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
J Histochem Cytochem 50:1013-21. 2002..We conclude that the fetal lung is an additional source of circulating ghrelin, whose functions at the respiratory tract level remain to be clarified...
Truncus arteriosus and isochromosome 8qMargherita Silengo
Am J Med Genet A 133:223-4. 2005
