Clinical Research - Critical Cardiology

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

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