Results of the Predictors of Response to CRT (PROSPECT) trial

…, P Nihoyannopoulos, J Merlino, WT Abraham, S Ghio… - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc
Background— Data from single-center studies suggest that echocardiographic parameters
of mechanical dyssynchrony may improve patient selection for cardiac resynchronization …

Independent and additive prognostic value of right ventricular systolic function and pulmonary artery pressure in patients with chronic heart failure

S Ghio, A Gavazzi, C Campana, C Inserra… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - jacc.org
OBJECTIVES We sought a better understanding of the coupling between right ventricular
ejection fraction (RVEF) and pulmonary artery pressure (PAP), as it might improve the …

Randomized trial of cardiac resynchronization in mildly symptomatic heart failure patients and in asymptomatic patients with left ventricular dysfunction and previous …

…, MR Gold, M St. John Sutton, S Ghio… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - jacc.org
Objectives : We sought to determine the effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)
in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II heart failure (HF) and NYHA …

Pulmonary hypertension due to left heart diseases

…, V Cottin, T De Marco, N Galič, S Ghio… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
Pulmonary hypertension (PH), a common complication of left heart diseases (LHD), negatively
impacts symptoms, exercise capacity, and outcome. Although the true prevalence of PH-…

Pulmonary hypertension in chronic lung diseases

…, V Cottin, T De Marco, N Galič, S Ghio… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and diffuse parenchymal lung diseases (DPLD),
including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sarcoidosis, are associated with a high …

Prognostic usefulness of the tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion in patients with congestive heart failure secondary to idiopathic or ischemic dilated …

S Ghio, F Recusani, C Klersy, R Sebastiani… - The American journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
The prognostic value of ultrasound evaluation of right ventricular (RV) performance in
patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) is still a matter of investigation. We studied 140 …

Independent prognostic value of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with heart failure. A quantitative analysis of 1256 patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic …

…, M Cicoira, S Frattini, A Simioniuc, M Gullace, S Ghio… - Heart, 2011 - heart.bmj.com
Background Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) is a common finding in patients with heart
failure (HF), but its effect on outcome is still uncertain, mainly because in previous studies …

Interventricular and intraventricular dyssynchrony are common in heart failure patients, regardless of QRS duration

S Ghio, C Constantin, C Klersy, A Serio… - European heart …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Aims The study aimed at evaluating the prevalence of interventricular and intraventricular
contractile dyssynchrony in heart failure patients with either normal or prolonged QRS duration…

Tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion and pulmonary arterial systolic pressure relationship in heart failure: an index of right ventricular contractile function and …

…, S Castelvecchio, L Menicanti, S Ghio… - American Journal …, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Echo-derived pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) and right ventricular (RV) tricuspid
annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE; from the end of diastole to end-systole) are of …

Prevention of disease progression by cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction: insights from …

C Daubert, MR Gold, WT Abraham, S Ghio… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - jacc.org
Objectives : The aim of this study was to determine the long-term effects of cardiac
resynchronization therapy (CRT) in the European cohort of patients enrolled in the REVERSE (…