Clinical Research - Critical Cardiology
Director Piergiuseppe Agostoni
Director: Piergiuseppe Agostoni
In the last 20 years, research performed in the Unit has allowed significant advances with important implications in the clinical field. The major research topics include:
- Cardiopulmonary interactions in heart failure patients;
- Beta-blockers influence on exercise performance in heart failure patients;
- Adaptation to high altitude;
- Gas exchange in heart failure;
- Non invasive cardiac output determination during exercise;
- The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in heart failure patients and management of heart failure in the new era: the role of scores;
- The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the clinical management of patients affected by pulmonary arterial hypertension;
- The role of plasma SPB and RAGE as markers of lung injury;
- Prognosis in heart failure in the era of β-blockers: role of severe exercise intolerance assessed by peak oxygen consumption; a finding from the MECKI database;
- Ominous prognostic value of indeterminable anaerobic threshold in heart failure; a finding from the MECKI database;
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing and risk in heart failure: gender alone does not affect survival; a finding from the MECKI database;
- Prognostic role of atrial fibrillation in patients affected by chronic heart failure; data from the MECKI score research group;
- Exercise tolerance can explain the obesity paradox in patients with systolic heart failure; data from the MECKI score research group;
- Multiparametric comparison of CARvedilol, vs. NEbivolol, vs. BIsoprolol in moderate heart failure: the CARNEBI trial;
- Exercise performance in patient with Chronic Heart failure with Jarvik Device.
Mecki Score: Metabolic Exercise Cardiac Kidney Index
The Mecki Score is an instrument for calculating the risk of chronic systolic heart failure reserved exclusively for clinical use by physicians. → Go to the Mecki Score