OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the incidence of warfarin fetal
complications and whether they are dose-dependent. BACKGROUND Gravid patients with …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the determinants of pregnancy outcome in patients with mechanical
valve prostheses anticoagulated with warfarin. METHODS: Between January 1987 and …

OBJECTIVE: The present study examined temporal and spatial patterns of extracellular matrix
and smooth muscle cell changes in the ascending aorta with bicuspid and tricuspid aortic …

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess extracellular matrix protein expression patterns at
the convexity (right anterolateral wall) and the concavity of the dilated ascending aorta in …

… De Santo LS, Esquinas AM. How to delineate obstructive sleep apnea and continuous
positive airway pressure link in postoperative atrial fibrillation conundrum? J Crit Care 2016;31:…

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is an increasingly used method of respiratory support. The
use of NIV is expanding over the time and if properly applied, it can save patients’ lives and …

OBJECTIVE: Congenital bicuspid aortic valves frequently cause aortic stenosis or
regurgitation. Improved understanding of valve and root biomechanics is needed to achieve …

The need for a specific risk score system for infective endocarditis (IE) surgery has been
previously claimed. In a single-center pilot study, preliminary to future multicentric development …

Methods: The clinical and microbiological character-istics of IE in a series of 39 IVDA patients
were retrospectively assessed and compared to those in 85 non-IVDA patients with a likely …

… De Feo and Luca De Santo contributed to patient/control enrolment, sample collection at
surgery and figure generation; Gianantonio Nappi and Maurizio Cotrufo collected samples at …