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Gaetano Santulli; Massimo Chiariello; Cristofaro d'Ascia; Salvatore d'Ascia. |
Albeit several studies examined the association between cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and atrial fibrillation (AF) in heart failure (HF), results are still unclear and quite conflicting. We thereby designed a single-center prospective study to determine whether CRT has a favorable effect on the incidence of new-onset AF in a homogeneous population of patients with non-ischemic idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and severe heart failure HF. We enrolled 58 patients, AF naïve when received CRT. After 1 year of follow-up our population was subdivided into responders (72.4%) and non (27.6%), so to compare the incidence of AF after 1, 2 and 3 years of follow-up in these two groups. Already after 1 year, there is a significant (p<0.05)... |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Ecology; Pharmacology; Bioinformatics; Earth & Environment. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/7137/version/1 |
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Alessandro Matarese; Gaetano Santulli. |
Angiogenesis is a crucial component of lung pathophysiology, not only in cancer but also in other disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In COPD angiogenesis is definitely able to control and orchestrate the progression of airway remodeling. Herein, we provide several remarkable translational aspects of angiogenesis in COPD, exploring both basic and clinical research in this field. Indeed, we present a number of pro- and anti-angiogenic factors, which can be also used as potential biomarkers to monitor disease progression. 

This pre-print has subsequently been published at http://www.unisa.it/uploads/7100/06.pdf |
Tipo: Manuscript |
Palavras-chave: Immunology; Molecular Cell Biology; Pharmacology. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/7112/version/1 |
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