Background: chronic periodontitis is an inflammatory disease of the periodontium caused by microbial infection. The BANA test is a simple chairside test which allows the clinician to quantify the amount of anaerobic periodontal infection. PISA quantifies the inflammatory burden posed by periodontitis to cause systemic inflammatory response. By comparing the BANA test values with PISA, the valid...

*Corresponding author: Prof. Aldo Clerico, MD, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Fondazione CNR-Regione Toscana G. Monasterio, Scuola Superiore Sant ’ Anna, Via Moruzzi 1, 56126 Pisa, Italy, Phone: + 39 0585 493569, Fax: + 39 0585 493601, E-mail: [email protected] ; and Scuola Superiore Sant ’ Anna, Pisa, Italy Concetta Prontera, Michele Emdin and Claudio Passino: Fondazione CNR-Regione Toscana ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to test the accuracy of an automated 3-dimensional (3D) proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) (in vitro and patients) and stroke volume technique (patients) to assess mitral regurgitation (MR) severity using real-time volume color flow Doppler transthoracic echocardiography. METHODS AND RESULTS Using an in vitro model of MR, the effective regurgitant or...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to explore the differential effect of 3-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography for the quantification of mitral regurgitation (MR). Two-dimensional color Doppler echocardiography-based MR quantification has well-documented limitations. METHODS AND RESULTS We consecutively enrolled 221 patients with MR. Adequate image quality was obtained by 2D- and 3D-c...

*Corresponding author: Maria Franzini, Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pisa, Italy; and Departments of Laboratory and Cardiovascular Medicine, Fondazione Regione Toscana G. Monasterio, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy, Phone: + 39-50-3153309, Fax: + 39-50-3152166, E-mail: [email protected] ; [email protected] Silvia Masotti, Claudio Passino and Aldo Clerico: Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pi...

Andrea Caiti, Vincenzo Calabrò, and Andrea Munafò Inter-university Ctr. on, Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment, Research Center “E.Piaggio”, Dept. of Energy and Systems Engineering, University of Pisa Pisa, 56127, Italy e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Gianluca Dini Inter-university Ctr. on, Integrated Systems for the Marine Environment, Rese...

1Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; 2Division of Surgery, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California; 3Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Department, Regional Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; 4Institute of Endocrine Surgery, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; and 5Institute of General Surgery, University of Padua Medical S...

Ferdinando Sartucci1,2,3, Tommaso Bocci1,4, Lucia Briscese1, Chiara Pecori1,3, Chiara Rossi1 and Fabio Giannini4 1Department of Neuroscience, Unit of Neurology, Pisa University Medical School, 2Institute of Neuroscience, CNR, Pisa, 3Department of Neuroscience, Unit Outpatients Neurological Activity, Pisa University Medical School, Pisa, 4Department of Neurological Neurosurgical and Behavioural ...

Giuseppe Buttazzo,1 Luigi De Pascale,2 and Paola Gori-Giorgi3 1Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 5 56127 Pisa, Italy 2Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata, Università di Pisa, Via Buonarroti 1/C 56127 Pisa, Italy 3Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling, FEW, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Neth...

a School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA b Research Center ‘E. Piaggio’, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy c Advanced Robotics Department, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy d Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy e Clinical Psychology Branch, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy f ...