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    The Role of the Association Between Serum C-Reactive Protein Levels and Coronary Plaque Macrophage Accumulation in Predicting Clinical Events — Results from the CLIMA Registry

    The present investigation aims to study the interaction between systemic and intra-plaque inflammation in predicting cardiac events. We investigated C-reactive protein (CRP) levels as well as plaque inflammati...

    Simone Budassi, Flavio Giuseppe Biccirè in Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Re… (2022)

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    Adoption of a new automated optical coherence tomography software to obtain a lipid plaque spread-out plot

    Near infrared spectroscopy–Intravascular ultrasound (NIRS-IVUS) provide a fully automated Lipid Core Burden Index (LCBI). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is potentially capable of measuring lipid longitudin...

    Francesco Isidori, Eugenio Lella in The International Journal of Cardiovascula… (2021)

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    Prevalence and quantitative assessment of macrophages in coronary plaques

    Although optical coherence tomography (OCT) proved to be able to identify macrophage clusters, there are no available data on the possibility to obtain reproducible measurements of their circumferential extens...

    Laura Gatto, Giulia Paoletti, Valeria Marco in The International Journal of Cardiovascula… (2021)

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    Biological profile of monocyte-derived macrophages in coronary heart disease patients: implications for plaque morphology

    The prevalence of a macrophage phenotype in atherosclerotic plaque may drive its progression and/or instability. Macrophages from coronary plaques are not available, and monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) are...

    Sonia Eligini, Nicola Cosentino, Susanna Fiorelli, Franco Fabbiocchi in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    Renal denervation in a patient with unilateral ectopic kidney in the pelvis and refractory hypertension

    Ectopic kidney and inherent vascular abnormalities may result in renovascular hypertension. The case we report is peculiar as a left ectopic iliac kidney supplied by a superior and an inferior polar renal arte...

    Daniela Trabattoni, Giovanni Teruzzi in Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeuti… (2017)

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    A new kaolin-based haemostatic bandage compared with manual compression for bleeding control after percutaneous coronary procedures

    Bleeding and vascular access site complications are an important cause of morbidity after percutaneous femoral procedures. New haemostatic dressings have been developed to control heavy bleeding. To evaluate t...

    Daniela Trabattoni, Piero Montorsi, Franco Fabbiocchi in European Radiology (2011)

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    Carotid stenting through the right brachial approach for left internal carotid artery stenosis and bovine aortic arch configuration

    Unfavorable complex anatomy or congenital anomalies of supra-aortic vessel take-off may increase carotid artery stenting (CAS) procedural difficulties and complications through the femoral route. We assessed t...

    Piero Montorsi, Stefano Galli, Paolo Ravagnani, Sarah Ghulam Ali in European Radiology (2009)