Our aim was to define the distribution of monocyte subsets in a cohort of congestive heart
failure (CHF) patients, to verify whether increased severity of CHF is linked to the expansion of …

Background Doxorubicin (DOX)-based chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) yields
excellent disease-free survival, but poses a substantial risk of subsequent left ventricular (LV) …

S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH), the metabolic precursor of homocysteine in the body, is a
potent inhibitor of methylation reactions. Several methylation reactions play a major role in …

OBJECTIVE: To assess myocardial involvement in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) with
no signs or symptoms of cardiac impairment (New York Heart Association functional class I)…

Objectives Growing evidence supports the role played by inflammation in atherosclerosis.
Identifying sensitive biomarkers is useful in predicting accelerated atherosclerosis. We …

A 46-year-old woman underwent diagnostic coronary angiography in our institution due to a
myocardial ischemia following a dobutamine echo-stress test. The patient showed critical …

Objective. To assess possible correlations between endothelial-dependent flow-mediated
dilation (FMD) of the brachial artery and nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) in patients with …

The past two decades have witnessed rapid and remarkable technical improvement of
multidetector computed tomography (CT) in both image quality and diagnostic accuracy. These …

Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is
associated with increased mortality. However, it is controversial whether AKI affects …

ObjectivesTo describe our experience in the management of coronary artery anomalies
both in an adult and in a paediatric population and to compare the two groups for finding out …