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Functional Improvement After Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients is Not Related to Improvement in Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves the functional capacity and the prognosis of patients with coronary artery disease.
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Hyperuricemia and Risk of Cardiovascular Outcomes: The Experience of the URRAH (Uric Acid Right for Heart Health) Project
The latest European Guidelines of Arterial Hypertension have officially introduced uric acid evaluation among the cardiovascular risk factors that should be evaluated in order to stratify patient’s risk. In fa...
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Open AccessRole of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in suspected cardiac amyloidosis: late gadolinium enhancement pattern as mortality predictor
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has gained a central role in the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis (CA). While the diagnostic role of a typical late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) pattern (global subendocardial ...
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Open AccessP6.16 Left Ventricular Geometry and Carotid Vascular Damage in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography
Vascular structural(intima-media thickness, IMT) and functional(carotid stiffness, cPWV)alterations are related to different pattern of left ventricular (LV) geometry in general populations and in hypertensive...
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Open AccessP7.2 Identification of Vascular and Circulating Biomarkers to Predict Outcome in Patients Affected by Septic Shock
Cardiovascular dysfunction is a well-recognized early complication of septic shock (SS). A hallmark of SS is a change in microvascular function and endothelial cell (EC) activation, contributing to multiple or...
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Open AccessP5.9 Lack of Recovery in Nocturnal Decline of Heart Rate and Blood Pressure After Heart Trasplantation
The cardiac transplant (CTr) patient provides a unique model for the study of blood pressure(BP) and heart rate (HR) changing. The parasympathetic and sympathetic influeces ordinarily regulate circadian rhythm...
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P4.20: Short-Term Effect of Anti-Vegf Drugs on Heart and Vessels
Drugs opposing the effect of vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) inhibit angiogenesis slowing down and eventually stop** solid tumors growth. Nevertheless these drugs can cause hypertension (that ...
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P1.12: Predictive Combined Role of Calcium Score and Carotidimt in Coronary Artery Disease
up to date the assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk is based mainly on the presence of CV risk factors. However, many markers of subclinical atherosclerosis has been demonstrated as powerful predic...
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Open AccessP5.23: TIMP1 Plasma Levels are Correlated with Arterial Stiffening Process
Arterial stiffness and left ventricle hypertrophy are associated with a decrease in collagen type1 degradation. Aim of our study was to address whether an increase in plasma levels of metalloproteinases-1 (MMP...
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Open Access12.07: Comparison of Two Radiofraquency-Based Systems for Assessment of Local Carotid Stiffness
two ultrasound systems (QAS, Esaote; and E-Track, Aloka) provide radio-frequency (RF)-based tracking of carotid wall, allowing realtime determination of vessel diameter, distension, and stiffness (CS). Measure...
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Open AccessP5.24: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Arterial Stiffness
Endothelium plays an important role in the development and progression of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), independently of its aetiology. Little is known on derived central blood pressure (CBP) and arte...
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The Mezza Spiaggia Tower (Cagliari, Italy): The Dating of Structures by the Metrological–Chronological Analysis of Masonry and the Petro-Geochemical Stratigraphy of Building Materials
This study is part of a more extensive research aimed at examining a number of important defence towers in and around Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. These towers form part of Sardinia’s historic coastal defence sy...
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Open AccessP6.05 Arterial Stiffness and Cardiac Damage Progression are Associated in Essential Hypertension Patients
Arterial stiffness and cardiac hypertrophy are independent cardiovascular risk factors. Aim of this study was to describe the relationship between these organ damages in a large cohort of essential hypertensiv...
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Open AccessP11.10 Arterial Structure and Function are Influenced by Antiretroviral Therapy and by the Presence of Renal Damage in Hiv Positive Patients
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically reduced AIDS—related mortality, but it has been associated to an increased cardiovascular risk, even in absence of hypertension. The aim of this study was to descr...
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Protective effects of renin–angiotensin blockade beyond blood pressure control
Antihypertensive drugs exert a number of blood pressure-independent benefits. However, demonstrating the clinical significance of these effects may be difficult for a number of reasons. First, blood pressure c...
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12.4 Effects of Triglyceridaemia on Carotid Wall Thickness in Treated Essential Hypertension
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7.4 Early Cardiac Damage in High Cardiovascular Risk Patients
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1.2 Comparison Between CRP and Other Conventional Risk Factors on Arterial Stiffness in Treated Essential Hypertension
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5.2 Myocardial Integrated Backscatter in Normotensive and Hypertensive Diabetic Patients
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4.2 Echographic Evaluation of Cardiac Toxicity and Tissue Characterization After Anthracycline Chemotherapy in Childhood: The Importance of Fractional Shortening (FS)