Pubblicazioni - Belli Dott.ssa Oriana

• Takotsubo syndrome as a complication in a critically ill COVID-19 patient.
  ESC Heart Fail

  2020 Sep;():. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.12912.
  
  Bottiroli Maurizio, De Caria Daniele, Belli Oriana, Calini Angelo, Andreoni Patrizia, Siragusa Antonio, Moreo Antonella, Ammirati Enrico, Mondino Michele, Fumagalli Roberto
  
  Abstract
  
  Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with cardiac injury have an increased risk of mortality. It remains to be determined the mechanism of cardiac injury and the identification of specific conditions that affect the heart during COVID-19. We present the case of a 76-year-old woman with COVID-19 pneumonia that developed a takotsubo syndrome (TTS). Although the patient presented normal left ventricular ejection fraction and normal levels of troponin on admission, after 16 days in intensive care unit due to respiratory distress, she suddenly developed cardiogenic shock. Shock occurred few hours after a spontaneous breathing trial through her tracheostomy. Bed-side echocardiographic revealed apical ballooning promptly supporting the diagnosis of TTS. She was successfully treated with deep sedation and low dosage of epinephrine. The relevance of this case is that TTS can occur in the late phase of COVID-19. Awareness of late TTS and bed-side echocardiographic evaluation can lead to prompt identification and treatment.
  
  © 2020 The Authors. ESC Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.
  
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• Thoracic radiotherapy as a risk factor for heart ischemia in subjects treated with chest irradiation and chemotherapy and without classic cardiovascular RISK factors.
  Radiother Oncol

  2020 11;152():146-150. doi: S0167-8140(20)30397-2.
  
  Vallerio Paola, Maloberti Alessandro, Palazzini Matteo, Occhi Lucia, Peretti Alessio, Nava Stefano, Soriano Francesco, Musca Francesco, De Chiara Benedetta, Belli Oriana, Moreo Antonella, Bisceglia Irma, Lestuzzi Chiara, Giannattasio Cristina
  
  Abstract
  
  BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
  Radiation Induced Heart Disease (RIHD) represents a late effect of chest irradiation, contributing in increasing mortality rate in oncological patients by affecting pericardium, myocardium, valvs and coronaries. Currently, regarding the risk of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), a cardiological screening involving exercise stress electrocardiography after 5-10 years from radiotherapy is advised. We sought to determine the rate of ischemia at exercise stress electrocardiography in a population of patients without cardiovascular risk factors who sustained radiotherapy, using a cohort of patients presenting with at least one cardiovascular risk factor as control group.
  
  DESIGN AND METHODS:
  A population of 115 patients who sustained chest irradiation (and associated chemotherapy), presenting without classic cardiovascular risk factors or typical symptoms suggesting CAD, was evaluated with exercise stress electrocardiography. 135 patients with at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease candidate to stress testing for primary prevention or for atypical symptoms served as control group.
  
  RESULTS:
  The cohort of irradiated patients without classical cardiovascular risk factors is younger (48.7 ± 10.1 vs 60.5 ± 10.8 years, p < 0.001) and presents a lower percentage of males when compared with the control group. In this latter group 25.9% of subjects has diabetes, 62.9% dyslipidaemia, 67.4% hypertension and 19.2% actively smoke. Despite this important differences regarding classic cardiovascular risk factors, no significant differences were found in the number of positive exercise stress electrocardiography (10.4 vs 5.9%, p = ns).
  
  CONCLUSIONS:
  Chest irradiation represents a strong cardiovascular risk factor. In fact, prevalence of positive ECG-stress test is not different (nor higher and nor lower) in irradiated subjects without cardiovascular risk and not irradiated patients with classic cardiovascular risk.
  
  Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
  
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• Could two-dimensional radial strain be considered as a novel tool to identify pre-clinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation carriers?
  Int J Cardiovasc Imaging

  2019 Dec;35(12):2167-2175. doi: 10.1007/s10554-019-01668-9.
  
  Santambrogio Gloria Maria, Maloberti Alessandro, Vallerio Paola, Peritore Angelica, Spanò Francesca, Occhi Lucia, Musca Francesco, Belli Oriana, De Chiara Benedetta, Casadei Francesca, Facchetti Rita, Turazza Fabio, Manfredini Emanuela, Giannattasio Cristina, Moreo Antonella
  
  Abstract
  
  Treatment of overt form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is often unsuccessful. Efforts are focused on a possible early identification in order to prevent or delaying the development of hypertrophy. Our aim was to find an echocardiographic marker able to distinguish mutation carriers without left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) from healthy subjects. We evaluated 28 patients, members of eight families. Three types of mutation were recognized: MYBPC3 (five families), MYH7 (two families) and TNNT2 (one family). According to genetic (G) and phenotypic (Ph) features, patients were divided in three groups: Group A (10 patients), mutation carriers with LVH (G+/Ph+); Group B (9 patients), mutation carriers without LVH (G+/Ph-); Group C (9 patients), healthy subjects (G-/Ph-). Echocardiography examination was performed acquiring standard 2D, DTI and 2D-strain imaging. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) and global radial strain (GRS) at basal and mid-level were measured. GRS was significantly different between group B and C at basal level (32.18%?±?9.6 vs. 44.59%?±?12.67 respectively; p-value?
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• Portico Sheathless Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation via Distal Axillary Artery.
  Ann Thorac Surg

  2017 Feb;103(2):e175-e177. doi: S0003-4975(16)30974-2.
  
  Bruschi Giuseppe, Colombo Paola, Botta Luca, Nava Stefano, Merlanti Bruno, Belli Oriana, Musca Francesco, Soriano Francesco, Russo Claudio F, Oliva Fabrizio
  
  Abstract
  
  Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has been designed to treat older patients affected by severe aortic stenosis who are considered high-risk surgical candidates because of multiple comorbidities. The least invasive approach for transcatheter aortic valves implantation should be considered the transfemoral retrograde route, because it is minimally invasive and is feasible with local anesthesia and mild sedation. Despite significant technical improvements in recent years, the transfemoral approach is contraindicated in cases of severe peripheral artery disease. We describe the first case of a Portico transcatheter aortic valve implantation system (St. Jude Medical, Minneapolis, MN) made through the distal axillary artery in a 90-year-old patient affected by severe aortic stenosis.
  
  Copyright © 2017 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
  
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• Evolut R Implantation to Treat Severe Pure Aortic Regurgitation in a Patient With Mitral Bioprosthesis.
  Ann Thorac Surg

  2016 Dec;102(6):e521-e524. doi: S0003-4975(16)30549-5.
  
  Bruschi Giuseppe, Colombo Paola, Nava Stefano, Musca Francesco, Merlanti Bruno, Belli Oriana, Soriano Francesco, Botta Luca, De Caria Danile, Giannattasio Cristina, Russo Claudio F
  
  Abstract
  
  Transcatheter aortic valves have been designed to treat high-risk surgical candidates affected by severe aortic stenosis, but little is known about the use of transcatheter valves in patients with severe pure aortic regurgitation. We describe the implantation of Medtronic CoreValve Evolut R (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN) to treat an 82-year-old patient affected by severe pure aortic regurgitation who underwent prior mitral valve replacement with a biological valve protruding into the left ventricular outflow tract.
  
  Copyright © 2016 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
  
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• A new access for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Distal axillary artery.
  Int J Cardiol

  2016 Nov;223():810-812. doi: S0167-5273(16)32008-3.
  
  Bruschi Giuseppe, Colombo Paola, Merlanti Bruno, Nava Stefano, Belli Oriana, Musca Francesco, Soriano Francesco, Botta Luca, Calini Angelo, De Caria Daniele F, Oliva Fabrizio, Russo Claudio F
  
  
  
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• Allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation and accelerated atherosclerosis: An intriguing association needing targeted surveillance. Lessons from a rare case of acute anterior myocardial infarction.
  Eur Heart J Acute Cardiovasc Care

  2020 Oct;9(7):NP3-NP7. doi: 10.1177/2048872616652311.
  
  Scudiero Laura, Soriano Francesco, Morici Nuccia, Grillo Giovanni, Belli Oriana, Sacco Alice, Cipriani Manlio, Pedrotti Patrizia, Quattrocchi Giuseppina, Klugmann Silvio, Oliva Fabrizio
  
  Abstract
  
  We report the case of a 23-year-old man who developed an acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction secondary to acute thrombotic occlusion of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery five years after undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and bulky mediastinal mass involving the pleura and pericardium. His medical history also included Graft versus Host Disease developed 13 months after transplantation and acute myocarditis three months before the actual hospital admission. To the best of our knowledge, coronary artery disease as a complication of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation and low-dose mediastinal radiation therapy in young patients has been rarely reported in the medical literature. Clinicians should have a high degree of suspicion of coronary artery disease in patients treated with allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, especially in patients previously treated with target mediastinal radiotherapy, as a group at risk of premature and significantly accelerated atherosclerosis, in order to make a timely and correct diagnosis.
  
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• CoreValve Evolut R implantation as valve-in-valve in an Edwards SAPIEN 3 to treat paravalvular regurgitation.
  EuroIntervention

  2015 Sep;11(5):e1. doi: 10.4244/EIJV11I5A116.
  
  Bruschi Giuseppe, Soriano Francesco, Musca Francesco, Nava Stefano, Einaudi Arturo, Garascia Andrea, Belli Oriana, Barosi Alberto, Fratto Pasquale, Colombo Paola, Russo Claudio Francesco, Gagliardone Maria Pia, Klugmann Silvio
  
  
  
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• Giant cell myocarditis successfully treated with antithymocyte globuline and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for 21 days.
  J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown)

  2016 Dec;17 Suppl 2():e151-e153. doi: 10.2459/JCM.0000000000000250.
  
  Ammirati Enrico, Oliva Fabrizio, Belli Oriana, Bonacina Edgardo, Pedrotti Patrizia, Turazza Fabio Maria, Roghi Alberto, Paino Roberto, Martinelli Luigi, Frigerio Maria
  
  Abstract
  
  : A 31-year-old man presenting with cardiogenic shock and left ventricular ejection fraction of 10% received the diagnosis of giant cell myocarditis by endomyocardial biopsy. The patient was successfully treated with high-dose inotropes, intra-aortic balloon pump and venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for 21 days associated with combined immunosuppression (thymoglobulin, steroids, cyclosporine). Immunosuppression including thymoglobulin is the regimen associated with the highest probability of recovery in case of giant cell myocarditis. Immunosuppression needs time to be effective; thus, hemodynamic support must be guaranteed. In the present case, we observed that full recovery can be obtained up to 21 days of support with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and adequate immunosuppression.
  
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• Left ventricular or Bi-ventricular assist device? How dobutamine stress echocardiography can untie the dilemma of right ventricular dysfunction.
  Int J Cardiol

  2014 Nov;177(1):e6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.07.194.
  
  Ammirati Enrico, Cipriani Manlio, De Chiara Benedetta, D'Angelo Luciana, Belli Oriana, Moreo Antonella, Oliva Fabrizio, Martinelli Luigi, Frigerio Maria
  
  
  
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• Tako-Tsubo like syndrome triggered by meperidine.
  Med J Malaysia

  2011 Dec;66(5):520-1.
  
  Sacco Alice, Morici Nuccia, Belli Oriana, Bossi Irene, Mafrici Antonio, Klugmann Silvio
  
  Abstract
  
  We present a case of "inverted Tako-Tsubo" syndrome in a woman sedated with meperidine before undergoing a colonscopy. We discuss possible etiology of this ventricular dysfunction.
  
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• Influence of CoreValve ReValving System implantation on mitral valve function: an echocardiographic study in selected patients.
  Catheter Cardiovasc Interv

  2011 Oct;78(4):638-44. doi: 10.1002/ccd.23045.
  
  De Chiara Benedetta, Moreo Antonella, De Marco Federico, Musca Francesco, Oreglia Jacopo, Lobiati Elisabetta, Bruschi Giuseppe, Belli Oriana, Mauri Francesco, Klugmann Silvio
  
  Abstract
  
  OBJECTIVES:
  The purpose of this study is to verify whether transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) determined changes in mitral valve (MV) function, in terms of mitral regurgitation (MR) and stenosis.
  
  BACKGROUND:
  Little data is available regarding the effects of TAVI on global MV function, often derived from analysis primarily focused on clinical and aortic related outcomes.
  
  METHODS:
  From May 2008 to March 2010, 73 patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis underwent TAVI with the CoreValve ReValving System. The study population consisted of 58 patients (27 males, mean age 82 ± 7 years) who underwent transthoracic echocardiography at least ?1 month after implantation (mean follow-up 7.8 ± 5.4 months).
  
  RESULTS:
  In patients with a left ventricular dysfunction (ejection fraction, EF, <45%) at the baseline, EF significantly increased from 37 ± 6% to 48 ± 7% after TAVI (P = 0.003). Before TAVI, 42 patients had no or mild MR, 13 mild-to-moderate, and 3 moderate or moderate-to-severe. During follow-up, the MR degree was unchanged in the majority of patients (55%), 12% reduced, and 33% worsened. Variables associated with worsening in MR were depth of aortic prosthesis (P = 0.02 for the distance between the ventricular end and the right coronary cusp; P = 0.04 for mean distance right-left coronary cusps) and left atrium area at the baseline (P = 0.02). After TAVI, six patients (10%) developed mild or moderate mitral stenosis, often in a native valve with anterior calcifications.
  
  CONCLUSIONS:
  In the majority of patients no significant changes occurred in the degree of MR in native valve, but we found that if the aortic valve was deeply implanted in the left ventricle outflow tract, a worsening in MR can be observed. A mitral stenosis development must be sought in patients with heavy calcifications of the anterior leaflet.
  
  Copyright © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
  
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