LATINI , Roberto

Background: The prognostic impact of hyperuricemia on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) has been investigated in observational registries and clinical trials, but the results have been often inconclusive. We examined the prognostic impact of elevated serum uric acid levels on long-term clinical outcomes in...

Aims This ancillary analysis of the GISSI-HF database aims at assessing the effect of rosuvastatin on the occurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with chronic heart failure (HF) who were not in AF at study entry.Methods and resultsGISSI-HF was a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial testing n-3 PUFA and rosuvastatin vs....

Background-Increased urinary excretion of albumin is an early sign of kidney damage and a risk factor for progressive cardiovascular and renal diseases and heart failure. There is, however, only limited information on the prevalence and prognostic role of urinary albumin excretion in patients with established chronic heart failure. Methods and...

Background: Studies assessing whether heart failure (HF) is associated with cancer and cancer-related mortality have yielded conflicting results. Objectives: This study assessed cancer incidence and mortality according to pre-existing HF in a community-based cohort. Methods: Among individuals ≥50 years of age from the Puglia region in Italy...

Background: Inflammatory biomarkers are useful in detecting patients with sepsis. The prognostic role of resistin and myeloperoxidase (MPO) has been investigated in sepsis. Materials and methods: Plasma resistin and MPO were measured on days 1, 2, and 7 in 957 patients enrolled in the Albumin Italian Outcome Sepsis (ALBIOS) trial. The...

Background' Acid aspiration is a complication of general anesthesia. Most animal models developed to define Its patho-physiology have focused on the acute (≤24 h) phase of the Injury. The authors describe a model of acid aspiration allowing the study of this type of lung Injury over time. Methods: The authors instilled hydrochloric acid (0.1 M,...

Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) are severe forms of bilateral lung inflammation with poor clinical outcomes. However, the pathophysiology of ALI/ARDS remains largely obscure. Soluble receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (sRAGE) plays a key regulatory role during the acute phase of inflammation, and...

Background: Pro-protein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 (PCSK9) is a proenzyme primarily known to regulate low-density lipoprotein receptor re-uptake on hepatocytes. Whether PCSK9 can concurrently trigger inflammation or not remains unclear. Here, we investigated the potential association between circulating levels of PCSK9 and mortality in...

BACKGROUND: Inflammatory biomarkers could be useful to stratify the risk of sepsis adverse outcome and potentially improving the clinical management. Here, we investigated the prognostic role of the inflammatory molecule osteopontin (OPN) in patients with severe sepsis with and without septic shock. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This is a sub-analysis...

Objective Amongst psychiatric disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent, by affecting approximately 15–17% of the population and showing a high suicide risk rate equivalent to around 15%. The present comprehensive overview aims at evaluating main research studies in the field of MDD at suicide risk, by proposing as well...