[HTML][HTML] The broad spectrum of LMNA cardiac diseases: from molecular mechanisms to clinical phenotype

S Crasto, I My, E Di Pasquale - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Mutations of Lamin A/C gene (LMNA) cause laminopathies, a group of disorders associated
with a wide spectrum of clinically distinct phenotypes, affecting different tissues and organs …

Common cardiovascular risk factors and in-hospital mortality in 3,894 patients with COVID-19: survival analysis and machine learning-based findings from the …

A Di Castelnuovo, M Bonaccio, S Costanzo… - Nutrition, Metabolism …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aims There is poor knowledge on characteristics, comorbidities and
laboratory measures associated with risk for adverse outcomes and in-hospital mortality in …

[HTML][HTML] Macrophage expression and prognostic significance of the long pentraxin PTX3 in COVID-19

E Brunetta, M Folci, B Bottazzi, M De Santis, G Gritti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Long pentraxin 3 (PTX3) is an essential component of humoral innate immunity,
involved in resistance to selected pathogens and in the regulation of inflammation,–. The …

Use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised COVID-19 patients is associated with reduced mortality: Findings from the observational multicentre Italian CORIST study

A Di Castelnuovo, S Costanzo, A Antinori… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was proposed as potential treatment for COVID-19.
Objective We set-up a multicenter Italian collaboration to investigate the relationship …

Early detection of elevated cardiac biomarkers to optimise risk stratification in patients with COVID-19

GG Stefanini, M Chiarito, G Ferrante, F Cannata… - Heart, 2020 - heart.bmj.com
Objective Risk stratification is crucial to optimise treatment strategies in patients with COVID-
19. We aimed to evaluate the impact on mortality of an early assessment of cardiac …

The ABO blood group locus and a chromosome 3 gene cluster associate with SARS-CoV-2 respiratory failure in an Italian-Spanish genome-wide association …

D Ellinghaus, F Degenhardt, L Bujanda, M Buti… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Background Respiratory failure is a key feature of severe Covid-19 and a critical driver of
mortality, but for reasons poorly defined affects less than 10% of SARS-CoV-2 infected …

Detailed stratified GWAS analysis for severe COVID-19 in four European populations

F Degenhardt, D Ellinghaus, S Juzenas… - Human molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Given the highly variable clinical phenotype of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a
deeper analysis of the host genetic contribution to severe COVID-19 is important to improve …

[HTML][HTML] Migratory and anti-fibrotic programmes define the regenerative potential of human cardiac progenitors

CM Poch, KS Foo, MT De Angelis, K Jennbacken… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Heart regeneration is an unmet clinical need, hampered by limited renewal of adult
cardiomyocytes and fibrotic scarring. Pluripotent stem cell-based strategies are emerging …

BNT162b2 vaccine induces antibody release in saliva: a possible role for mucosal viral protection?

A Darwich, C Pozzi, G Fornasa, M Lizier… - EMBO molecular …, 2022 - embopress.org
Vaccination against an airborne pathogen is very effective if it induces also the development
of mucosal antibodies that can protect against infection. The mRNA‐based vaccine …

[HTML][HTML] Pulsed-field ablation-based pulmonary vein isolation: acute safety, efficacy and short-term follow-up in a multi-center real world scenario

MD Lemoine, T Fink, C Mencke, R Schleberger… - Clinical Research in …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Pulsed-field ablation (PFA) is a new energy source to achieve pulmonary vein
isolation (PVI) by targeted electroporation of cardiomyocytes. Experimental and controlled …