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Correlations between non ivasive renal index and markers of atherosclerosis in lupus patients
2014
Recent data suggest that renal hemodynamic parameters obtained by duplex Doppler sonography, especially the intrarenal resistive index (RI), may be associated with systemic vascular changes in some groups of patients. However, conflicting data exist about the relationship between aortic stiffness and RI in autoimmune disease, like systemic lupus erythematosus, characterized by high and early incidence of atherosclerotic disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between RI and arterial stiffness, assessed by aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV), and carotid atherosclerosis, evaluated by intimal medial thickness measurement (IMT) in patients with SLE. DESIGN: Cross-sectiona…
Early vascular aging in normotensive subjects with systemic lupus erythematous. Comparison with young hypertensive patients
2014
early vascular aging
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AND RENAL RESISTIVE INDEX IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS.
2013
INTRODUCTION: The assessment of renal hemodynamic parameters by duplex Doppler sonography has been used for many years as a diagnostic tool in the daily workup of kidney diseases. Recent data suggest that these parameters, especially the intrarenal resistive index (RI), may be also associated with systemic vascular changes and cardiovascular risk. However, conflicting data exist about the independent association of aortic stiffness with RI. AIM: The aim was to evaluate the relationship between RI and arterial stiffness, assessed by aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV), in the hypertensive subjects consecutively attending our hypertension centre. METHODS: We enrolled 264 subjects, aged between 3…
ASSOCIATION OF RENAL RESISTIVE INDEX WITH CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS
2014
Left ventricular hypertrophy or storage disease? the incremental value of speckle tracking strain bull's-eye
2017
Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) develops in response to a variety of physical, genetic, and biochemical stimuli and represents the early stage of ventricular remodeling. In patients with LVH, subclinical left ventricular (LV) dysfunction despite normal ejection fraction (EF) may be present before the onset of symptoms, which portends a dismal prognosis. Strain measurement with two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) represents a highly reproducible and accurate alternative to LVEF determination. The present review focuses on current available evidence that supports the incremental value of STE in the diagnostic and prognostic workup of LVH. When assessing the components o…
Incidence and prognostic factors related to major adverse cerebrovascular events in patients with complex aortic diseases treated by the chimney tech…
2018
Abstract Objective Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) with the chimney technique (ch-EVAR) has been used for the treatment of aortic aneurysms as an alternative approach to fenestrated endografting or open repair. Nonetheless, the need for an upper extremity arterial access may contribute to a higher risk for periprocedural cerebrovascular events. This study reports on the perioperative cerebral and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) after ch-EVAR. Methods The PERICLES registry (PERformance of the chImney technique for the treatment of Complex aortic pathoLogiES) is an international, retrospective multicenter study evaluating the performance of ch-EVAR for the treatme…
Collected World Experience About the Performance of the Snorkel/Chimney Endovascular Technique in the Treatment of Complex Aortic Pathologies
2015
OBJECTIVES: We sought to analyze the collected worldwide experience with use of snorkel/chimney endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) for complex abdominal aneurysm treatment. BACKGROUND: EVAR has largely replaced open surgery worldwide for anatomically suitable aortic aneurysms. Lack of availability of fenestrated and branched devices has encouraged an alternative strategy utilizing parallel or snorkel/chimney grafts (ch-EVAR). METHODS: Clinical and radiographic information was retrospectively reviewed and analyzed on 517 patients treated by ch-EVAR from 2008 from 2014 by prearranged defined and documented protocols. RESULTS: A total of 119 patients in US centers and 398 in European centers …
Endoluminal Stent-Graft Relining of Visceral Artery Bypass Grafts to Treat Perigraft Seroma
2013
PURPOSE: To describe the endovascular treatment of intra-abdominal perigraft seromas associated with small-caliber expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) grafts. CASE REPORTS: Two patients who underwent hybrid repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms in which renovisceral bypass grafts were implanted presented with large, symptomatic perigraft seromas. The 5- to 8-mm-diameter ePTFE bypass grafts believed to be involved in the seromas were successfully relined with self-expanding Viabahn stent-grafts in percutaneous procedures. The patients' symptoms were relieved, and imaging follow-up (18 and 10 months, respectively) has shown near complete resorption of the seromas. CONCLUSION: It is…
Segmentation-Free Estimation of Aortic Diameters from MRI Using Deep Learning
2021
Accurate and reproducible measurements of the aortic diameters are crucial for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases and for therapeutic decision making. Currently, these measurements are manually performed by healthcare professionals, being time consuming, highly variable, and suffering from lack of reproducibility. In this work we propose a supervised deep-learning method for the direct estimation of aortic diameters. The approach is devised and tested over 100 magnetic resonance angiography scans without contrast agent. All data was expert-annotated at six aortic locations typically used in clinical practice. Our approach makes use of a 3D+2D convolutional neural network (CNN) that ta…
STIFFNESS AORTICA STIMATA MEDIANTE METODICA OSCILLOMETRICA E PROGRESSIONE DEL DANNO RENALE IN PAZIENTI IPERTESI NEFROPATICI
2022
Scopo del lavoro: Scopo principale del nostro studio è stato quello di analizzare la possibile relazione tra aumento della rigidità aortica e progressione della malattia renale cronica in un gruppo di pazienti ipertesi nefropatici, endpoint secondari riguardavano l’eventuale ruolo prognostico della pulse wave velocity (PWV) sugli eventi cardiovascolari (CV) e sulla mortalità totale. Materiali e metodi: sono stati arruolati 395 pazienti che sono stati sottoposti a esami bioumorali, monitoraggio ambulatoriale della pressione arteriosa e stima della stiffness aortica mediante dispositivo oscillometrico Arteriograph. Sono stati inoltre registrati i dati relativi all’insorgenza di eventi card…