TETTAMANTI , Camilla

Background. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one of the cause of sudden cardiac death and it is characterized by phenotypic and genotypic heterogeneity. The majority of HCM is caused by mutations in genes encoding components of the cardiac tissue. MYH7 (encoding beta-myosin heavy chain), TNNT2 (encoding cardiac Troponin T) and TNNI3...

Allergic, IgE-mediated inflammation is thought to play a role in atherogenesis and atherosclerotic disease progression. In this study, total IgE and mast cell tryptase were measured in a series of forensic autopsy cases including non-allergic cardiac deaths (14 cases with minimal or no coronary atherosclerosis, 14 cases with significant...

The possible use of biochemical markers in the postmortem diagnosis of myocardial ischemia is well known in the forensic setting, though several issues have limited its widespread adoption. The study presented herein focuses of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide, troponin T, and troponin I, and the possible influence due to sampling site...

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The COVID-19 pandemic has evidenced the chronic inequality that exists between populations and communities as regards global healthcare. Vaccination, an appropriate tool for the prevention of infection, should be guaranteed by means of proportionate interventions to defeat such inequality in populations and communities affected by a higher risk...

The clinical risk management as a tool to improve the quality and appropriateness of health services, in recent years has proved to conquer a central position in the politics of Clinical Governance. The main reason behind this rise is the need to contain the increasing litigation in the Jield of medical liability through instruments able to...