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Doctor Renato De Vecchis

Hospital San Gennaro - ASL Napoli 1 Centre, Naples (Italy)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology

Clinical case: chronic heart failure due to amyloidotic cardiomyopathy plus monoclonal gammopathy with infiltration of the lumbosacral spine.

Event: Heart Failure 2021

Topic: Clinical

Session: Clinical Case session

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Fatal Intestinal Infarct Preceded by Recurrent Ischaemic Colitis due to the Enterotoxic Effect of Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate.

Event: Heart Failure 2021

Topic: Renal Failure and Cardiovascular Disease

Session: Clinical Case session

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Amiodarone-induced tyroid dysfunctions: new insights from an observational study

Event: Heart Failure 2021

Topic: Cardiotoxicity of Drugs

Session: ePoster session

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In HFrEF patients, reduced doses of sacubitril / valsartan do not result in increased mortality or heart failure hospitalizations compared to target dose. A retrospective cohort study

Event: Heart Failure 2018

Topic: Pharmacotherapy

Session: Chronic Heart Failure – Treatment

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Mini mental state exam for evaluation of cognitive function in patients with CHF treated with sacubitril / valsartan compared with controls taking conventional therapy: a retrospective cohort study.

Event: Heart Failure 2018

Topic: Comorbidities

Session: Chronic Heart Failure - Clinical

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Aldosterone receptor antagonists decrease mortality and CV hospitalizations in CHF with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction(LVEF), but not in CHF with preserved LVEF. A metaanalysis of RCTs

Event: Heart Failure 2017 - 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure

Topic: Prognosis

Session: Chronic heart failure

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Over-correction of symptomatic hyponatremia in chronic HF that required specific therapeutic adjustments against possible osmotic demyelination syndrome. An apparently counterintuitive approach.

Event: Heart Failure 2017 - 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure

Topic: Co-morbidities

Session: Clinical Case Corner 3 - Metabolic issues in heart failure: don't forget periphery!

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Ranolazine alone or as an add-on to amiodarone for both prevention and cardioversion of atrial fibrillation in patients with or without chronic heart failure: a metaanalysis of the literature

Event: Heart Failure 2017 - 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure

Topic: Chronic Ischaemic heart disease

Session: Chronic heart failure

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In ADHF patients, difference between serum BNP on admission and the one that is detected at discharge predicts six- month mortality more reliably compared to BNP on admission

Event: Heart Failure 2017 - 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure

Topic: Prognosis (Syncope)

Session: Acute heart failure

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A case of idiopathic aortitis with clinical presentation consisting in acute decompensated heart failure: diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and pathophysiological considerations

Event: HEART FAILURE 2016

Topic: Acute Heart Failure

Session: Clinical Case Corner 5: When the heart is burning: cases of inflammatory cardiac involvement Part II

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