Gianluca Polvani

Acute effects of 17beta-estradiol on left internal mammary graft after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Lack of association between serum immunoreactivity and Chlamydia pneumoniae detection in the human aortic wall.

Oxygen metabolism during and after cardiac surgery: role of CPB.

Nitric oxide-releasing aspirin inhibits vasoconstriction in perfused tail artery of normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats.

Aortic valve: do its nervous and contractile elements have any role?

Six-year monitoring of the donor-specific immune response to cryopreserved aortic allograft valves: implications with valve dysfunction.

Long-term results after aortic valve replacement with the Bravo 400 stentless xenograft.

P2 receptors in human heart: upregulation of P2X6 in patients undergoing heart transplantation, interaction with TNFalpha and potential role in myocardial cell death.

The future of human valve allografts: bioengineering and stem cells.

Meta-analysis of randomized trials comparing off-pump with on-pump coronary artery bypass graft patency.

Proteomic analysis of membrane microdomains derived from both failing and non-failing human hearts.

Nitric oxide and prostacyclin pathways: an integrated mechanism that limits myocardial infarction progression in anaesthetized rats.

Concurrent coronary and carotid artery surgery: an open debate.

Effect of cryopreservation techniques on aortic valve glycosaminoglycans.

Are the aortic anatomical normal leaflets, normal leaflets?

Reduction ascending aortoplasty: midterm follow-up and predictors of redilatation.

What patients want: a new biological era in valvular prostheses.

[Off-pump coronary bypass surgery: pros and cons].

Images in cardiothoracic surgery: multislice computed tomography visualization of the VSTENT device.

Resection and end-to-end anastomosis for ascending aortic aneurysms associated with a bicuspid valve: case reports.

17Beta-estradiol effects on human coronaries and grafts employed in myocardial revascularization: a preliminary study.

Rates of cycling cells in cryopreserved valvular homograft: a preliminary study.

Multifactorial bases of stroke after cardiac surgery.

Administration of octreotide for management of postoperative high-flow chylothorax.

Fine characterization of mitral valve glycosaminoglycans and their modification with degenerative disease.

Role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the treatment of postoperative organ/space sternal surgical site infections.

Recycling thoracic arteries for redo coronary artery bypass grafting: long-term follow-up.

Cyclic intermittent aortic regurgitation of a mechanical bileaflet aortic valve prosthesis: diagnosis and clinical implications.

Sutureless patch-and-glue technique for the repair of coronary sinus injuries.

The challenge of homograft tissue banks: the viability of cryopreserved valvular homografts.

Do women currently receive the same standard of care in coronary artery bypass graft procedures as men? A propensity analysis.

[Cardiac engineered valves: state of the art].

Double vs single internal thoracic artery harvesting in diabetic patients: role in perioperative infection rate.

Combining stem cells and tissue engineering in cardiovascular repair -- a step forward to derivation of novel implants with enhanced function and self-renewal characteristics.

Heart valve engineering: decellularized aortic homograft seeded with human cardiac stromal cells.

Redox proteomics identification of oxidatively modified myocardial proteins in human heart failure: implications for protein function.

Epigenetic programming and risk: the birthplace of cardiovascular disease?

Establishing a procedure for dimethyl sulfoxide removal from cardiovascular allografts: a quantitative study.

Tools and procedures for ex vivo vein arterialization, preconditioning and tissue engineering: a step forward to translation to combat the consequences of vascular graft remodeling.

Saphenous vein cannulation in re-redo cardiac surgery.

Mechanical compliance and immunological compatibility of fixative-free decellularized/cryopreserved human pericardium.

Patents and heart valve surgery--I: mechanical valves.

A compact and automated ex vivo vessel culture system for the pulsatile pressure conditioning of human saphenous veins.

Patents and heart valve surgery - II: tissue valves.

Aortic valve leaflet glycosaminoglycans composition and modification in severe chronic valve regurgitation.

Acute aortic insufficiency due to rupture of an aortic valve commissure.

Patents and Heart Valve Surgery - III: Percutaneous Heart Valves.

Expanding extrapleural hematoma from rib fractures after cardiac surgery.

Postoperative dissecting ventricular haematoma: a conservative strategy with a cardiac magnetic resonance imaging follow-up.

Cavo-atrial metastases from cutaneous melanoma.

Residual antibiotics in decontaminated human cardiovascular tissues intended for transplantation and risk of falsely negative microbiological analyses.

Adventitial vessel growth and progenitor cells activation in an ex vivo culture system mimicking human saphenous vein wall strain after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Feasibility of pig and human-derived aortic valve interstitial cells seeding on fixative-free decellularized animal pericardium.

Human Saphenous Vein Response to Trans-wall Oxygen Gradients in a Novel Ex Vivo Conditioning Platform.

Erratum to: Human Saphenous Vein Response to Trans-wall Oxygen Gradients in a Novel Ex Vivo Conditioning Platform.

Hybrid percutaneous and surgical minimally invasive, thoracoscopy-guided removal of a pacemaker lead subacutely perforating the right ventricle.

Postdilatation ballooning of an Edwards ELITE rapid deployment bioprosthesis for a severe paravalvular leak.

Normal human mitral valve proteome: A preliminary investigation by gel-based and gel-free proteomic approaches.

Acute ascending aortic dissection associated with chronic intramural hematoma.

Pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricular outflow tract after cardiac surgery.

Huge Left Atrial Myxoma and Concomitant Silent Coronary Artery Disease in a Young Man.

Composite graft using an Edwards Intuity Elite rapid deployment bioprosthesis for aortic root replacement.