Current role and outcomes of ascending aortic replacement for severe nonaneurysmal aortic atherosclerosisBartolo Zingone
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Trieste, Italy
Ann Thorac Surg 89:429-34. 2010
..No standard treatment has emerged to date, and uncertainties persist about criteria for selecting patients and procedures...
- Early and late outcomes of cardiac surgery in octogenarians
Bartolo Zingone
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Ann Thorac Surg 87:71-8. 2009
..Expanding demand for cardiac surgery in the elderly requires constant assessment of selection criteria and outcomes...
Surgical management of the atherosclerotic ascending aorta: is endoaortic balloon occlusion safe?Bartolo Zingone
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Trieste, Italy
Ann Thorac Surg 82:1709-14. 2006
..The safety and the effectiveness of endoaortic occlusion have not been documented in this setting...
- The impact of epiaortic ultrasonographic scanning on the risk of perioperative stroke
Bartolo Zingone
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Strada di Fiume 447, 34100 Trieste, Italy
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 29:720-8. 2006
..To assess the impact of epiaortic scanning on the incidence of perioperative stroke in patients undergoing cardiac surgery...
- Aortic root replacement with a valved conduit containing a stented xenograft
Giuseppe Gatti
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 33:740-1. 2008
..This facilitates the technique of implantation and may simplify a redo procedure in case of valve failure...
- Tricuspid valve annuloplasty with a flexible prosthetic band
Giuseppe Gatti
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Strada di Fiume 447, 34100 Trieste, Italy
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 6:731-5. 2007
..077, 0.061, and 0.097, respectively)...
- Off-pump coronary artery surgery with the Coronéo Cor-Vasc stabilizing device: clinical experience of 141 patients
Amedeo Spina
Cardiovascular Department, Cardiac Surgery Unit, AOU Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Ospedale di Cattinara Polo Cardiologico, via Valdoni, Trieste, Italy
J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 11:381-5. 2010
..Coronéo Cor-Vasc is a reusable system combining suction positioning with compression stabilization. The purpose of this study was to analyze our experience in OPCABG with the Cor-Vasc system...
- Critical illness polyneuropathy. Regression following cardiac operation
Giuseppe Gatti
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Ospedale di Cattinara, Strada di Fiume, 447 34100 Trieste, Italy
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 6:419-20. 2007
..This case report should make this disease known also as a preoperative condition that may regress following a successful cardiac operation...
- Stenting the coronaries and bypassing the evidence in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: time to set the record straight
Bartolo Zingone
Cardiovascular Department, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 8:362-70. 2007
- Protecting the crossover right internal thoracic artery bypass graft with a pedicled thymus flap
Giuseppe Gatti
Cardiovascular Department, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Ann Thorac Surg 82:1919-21. 2006
..Starting in 1999, suitable flaps were obtained in 955 of 1,034 patients (92.4%) receiving an anteaortic crossover right internal thoracic artery-to-coronary graft in our division...
- Logistic versus additive EuroSCORE. A comparative assessment of the two models in an independent population sample
Bartolo Zingone
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiology, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 26:1134-40. 2004
..Therefore we sought to validate the logistic model and assess its predictive performance compared to the additive approach...
