Francesco Prati, Enrico Romagnoli, Alessio La Manna, Francesco Burzotta, Laura Gatto, Valeria Marco, Massimo Fineschi, Franco Fabbiocchi, Francesco Versaci, Carlo Trani, Corrado Tamburino, Fernándo Alfonso, Gary S. Mintz,
Aims:The role of intraprocedural optical coherence tomography (OCT) on the long-term clinical outcome of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) remains undefined.The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of quantitative OCT-defined suboptimal stent implantation at long-term follow-up. Methods and results:In the context of the multicentre Centro per la Lotta contro l'Infarto -Optimisation of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (CLI-OPCI) registry, we compared the long-term PCI outcome ...
Tópico(s): Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
2018 - European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions | EuroIntervention
Francesco Prati, Enrico Romagnoli, Laura Gatto, Alessio La Manna, Francesco Burzotta, Yukio Ozaki, Valeria Marco, Alberto Boi, Massimo Fineschi, Franco Fabbiocchi, Nevio Taglieri, Giampaolo Niccoli, Carlo Trani, Francesco Versaci, Giuseppe Calligaris, Gianni Ruscica, Alessandro Di Giorgio, Rocco Vergallo, Mario Albertucci, Giuseppe Biondi‐Zoccai, Corrado Tamburino, Filippo Crea, Fernándo Alfonso, Eloisa Arbustini,
Abstract Aims The CLIMA study, on the relationship between coronary plaque morphology of the left anterior descending artery and twelve months clinical outcome, was designed to explore the predictive value of multiple high-risk plaque features in the same coronary lesion [minimum lumen area (MLA), fibrous cap thickness (FCT), lipid arc circumferential extension, and presence of optical coherence tomography (OCT)-defined macrophages] as detected by OCT. Composite of cardiac death and target segment myocardial ...
Tópico(s): Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
2019 - Oxford University Press | European Heart Journal
Enrico Romagnoli, Laura Gatto, Alessio La Manna, Francesco Burzotta, Nevio Taglieri, Francesco Saia, Francesco Amico, Valeria Marco, Vito Ramazzotti, Alessandro Di Giorgio, Luca Di Vito, Alberto Boi, Marco Contarini, Fausto Castriota, Gary S. Mintz, Francesco Prati,
Objectives Assess clinical consequences of acute stent malapposition (ASM) in the context of the multicenter Centro per la Lotta Contro l'Infarto‐Optimization of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (CLI‐OPCI) registry. Background ASM as important determinant of stent thrombosis (ST) risk remains controversial. Methods From 2009 to 2013, we retrospectively analyzed postprocedural optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in 864 patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, assessing prevalence ...
Tópico(s): Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
2017 - Wiley | Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
Francesco Prati, Enrico Romagnoli, Laura Gatto, Alessio La Manna, Francesco Burzotta, Ugo Limbruno, Francesco Versaci, Franco Fabbiocchi, Alessandro Di Giorgio, Valeria Marco, Vito Ramazzotti, Luca Di Vito, Carlo Trani, Italo Porto, Alberto Boi, Luigi Tavazzi, Gary S. Mintz,
Background— Clinical consequences of optical coherence tomographic (OCT) high-definition visualization of plaque/stent structures in acute patients remain undefined. In this retrospective substudy, we assessed the prognostic impact of postprocedural culprit lesion OCT findings in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. Methods and Results— In the CLI-OPCI (Centro per la Lotta Contro L’Infarto-Optimization of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) database ...
Tópico(s): Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
2016 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions
Francesco Prati, Enrico Romagnoli, Flavio Giuseppe Biccirè, Francesco Burzotta, Alessio La Manna, Simone Budassi, Vito Ramazzotti, Mario Albertucci, Franco Fabbiocchi, Alessandro Sticchi, Carlo Trani, Giuseppe Calligaris, Massimo Fineschi, Francesco Versaci, Corrado Tamburino, Yukio Ozaki, Fernándo Alfonso, Gary S. Mintz,
Intraprocedural optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a valuable tool for guidance of percutaneous coronary intervention, but long-term follow-up data are lacking.
Tópico(s): Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
2022 - European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions | EuroIntervention
Andreas V. Olympios, Joshua McTigue, Pau Farres-Antunez, Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli, Yongliang Li, Yulong Ding, Wolf‐Dieter Steinmann, Liang Wang, Haisheng Chen, Christos N. Markides,
Abstract The share of electricity generated by intermittent renewable energy sources is increasing (now at 26% of global electricity generation) and the requirements of affordable, reliable and secure energy supply designate grid-scale storage as an imperative component of most energy transition pathways. The most widely deployed bulk energy storage solution is pumped-hydro energy storage (PHES), however, this technology is geographically constrained. Alternatively, flow batteries are location independent ...
Tópico(s): Adsorption and Cooling Systems
2021 - IOP Publishing | Progress in Energy
Emiliano Borri, Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli, Gabriele Comodi,
Liquid air energy storage (LAES) represents one of the main alternatives to large-scale electrical energy storage solutions from medium to long-term period such as compressed air and pumped hydro energy storage. Indeed, characterized by one of the highest volumetric energy density (≈200 kWh/m3), LAES can overcome the geographical constraints from which the actual mature large-scale electrical energy storage technologies suffer from. LAES is based on the concept that air can be liquefied, stored, and ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
2020 - Elsevier BV | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
Emiliano Borri, Jia Yin Sze, Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli, Yongliang Li, Gabriele Comodi,
Latent heat thermal energy storage systems are gaining increasing attention due to their high energy density and ability to discharge at near isothermal temperatures. A good understanding of the thermal behaviour of phase change materials (PCMs) used in these systems and therefore, a methodology for the characterisation of the phase change behaviour of storage media during charge and discharge phases is important for an optimised storage design. In this work, an experimental rig in a cylindrical ...
Tópico(s): Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
2020 - Elsevier BV | Applied Energy
Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli,
Liquid air energy storage system (LAES) is a promising Carnot battery's configuration that includes thermal energy storage systems to thermally connect the charge and discharge phases. Among them, the high grade cold storage (HGCS) is of paramount importance due to the waste cold recovery of the liquid air regasification process. As of now, most of the literature studies on LAES designed to store the cryogenic energy using sensible heat material and only few works (including one recently carried out ...
Tópico(s): Advanced battery technologies research
2023 - Elsevier BV | Energy
Lior Mevorach, Ali Forookhi, Alessio Farcomeni, Stefano Romagnoli, Federico Bilotta,
Systematic reviews to date have neglected to exclusively include studies using a validated diagnostic scale for postoperative delirium and monitoring patients for more than 24 h. Evidence on current risk factors is evolving with significantly heterogeneous study designs, inconsistent reporting of results, and a lack of adjustment for bias.This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to identify risk factors for postoperative delirium in an adult patient population. Study designs suitable for this ...
Tópico(s): Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
2022 - Elsevier BV | British Journal of Anaesthesia
Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli, Emiliano Borri, Gabriele Comodi,
Liquid Air Energy Storage is one of the most promising novel energy storage concept that guarantees at the same time viable capital cost, high energy density and no geographical/geological constrains. Considering the complexity of the plant, composed by three different phases (charge, discharge and storage), thermodynamic modelling could be a challenging undertaking. Making use of the strong similitude with gas turbine technology, this paper aims to deliver new generalized performance maps for Liquid ...
Tópico(s): Adsorption and Cooling Systems
2019 - Elsevier BV | Applied Energy
Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli, Yongliang Li, Emiliano Borri, Gabriele Comodi,
This work investigates the technical and economic feasibility of a Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) for building demand management applications. The thermodynamics and processes of the LAES configuration, as well as the description of the daily cooling energy demand profile, are described in details and the assumptions and constrains are pointed out. The quantitative analysis has been carried out for a daily cooling energy demand of an existing office building, located in Singapore, locality characterized ...
Tópico(s): Phase Change Materials Research
2017 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
Emiliano Borri, Alessio Tafone, Alessandro Romagnoli, Gabriele Comodi,
Liquid Air Energy Storage systems represent a sustainable solution to store energy. Although a lot of interest is dedicated to large scale systems (up to 300 tons per day), a small-scale Liquid Air Energy Storage can be used as energy storage as part of a microgrid and/or an energy distribution network. However, when scaling down the size of the system, the round trip efficiency decreases due to the low performance of the liquefaction process. In this paper a preliminary study on the optimal configuration ...
Tópico(s): Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
2017 - Elsevier BV | Energy Conversion and Management
Roberto Broccoletti, Adriana Cafaro, Alessio Gambino, Ercole Romagnoli, Paolo G. Arduino,
The aim of this prospective study was to estimate the effects of Erbium substituted: Yttrium Aluminium Garnet (Er:YAG) laser, compared with traditional scalpel, on the early postoperative sequelae of nondysplastic oral lesion removal.There is limited evidence that laser surgery could exhibit advantages over scalpel in oral mucosal surgery.The investigators studied a cohort of 344 patients; 394 lesions were randomized and treated. Outcome statistically evaluated variables were: age, gender, the site ...
Tópico(s): Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology
2015 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | Photomedicine and Laser Surgery
Adriana Cafaro, Paolo G. Arduino, Alessio Gambino, Ercole Romagnoli, Roberto Broccoletti,
Tópico(s): Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lasers in Medical Science
Massimiliano De Paolis, Alessio Biazzo, Carlo Romagnoli, Nikolin Alì, Sandro Giannini, Davide María Donati,
Introduction . The management of pelvic tumors is a challenge for orthopaedic oncologists due to the complex anatomy of the pelvis and the need to have extensive exposure. Various reconstructive techniques have been proposed with poor functional results and a high percentage of complications. Our purpose is to determine the functional results and the rate of complications of iliac stem prosthesis for acetabular defects following resections for periacetabular tumors. Materials and Methods . Between 1999 ...
Tópico(s): Management of metastatic bone disease
2013 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | The Scientific World JOURNAL
Francesco Prati, Enrico Romagnoli, Francesco Burzotta, Ugo Limbruno, Laura Gatto, Alessio La Manna, Francesco Versaci, Valeria Marco, Luca Di Vito, Fabrizio Imola, Giulia Paoletti, Carlo Trani, Corrado Tamburino, Luigi Tavazzi, Gary S. Mintz,
OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to assess the clinical impact of optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).BACKGROUND OCT provides unprecedented high-definition visualization of plaque/stent structures during PCI; however, the impact of OCT findings on outcome remains undefined. METHODSIn the context of the multicenter CLI-OPCI (Centro per la Lotta contro l'Infarto-Optimisation of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) registry, we retrospectively ...
Tópico(s): Peripheral Artery Disease Management
2015 - Elsevier BV | JACC. Cardiovascular imaging
Emiliano Borri, Alessio Tafone, Gabriele Comodi, Alessandro Romagnoli, Luisa F. Cabeza,
Electrical energy storage systems have a fundamental role in the energy transition process supporting the penetration of renewable energy sources into the energy mix. Compressed air energy storage (CAES) is a promising energy storage technology, mainly proposed for large-scale applications, that uses compressed air as an energy vector. Although the first document in literature on CAES appeared in 1976 and the first commercial plant was installed in 1978, this technology started to gain attention ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Energies
Emiliano Borri, Alessio Tafone, Gabriele Comodi, Alessandro Romagnoli,
Liquid air energy storage systems (LAES) store liquid air produced by a liquefaction cycle and convert it into electric/cooling power when needed. A small-scale Liquid air energy storage system represents a sustainable solution in microgrid and distributed generation, where small energy storage capacities are required. The main drawback of these systems though, is the low round trip efficiency due to a high specific consumption of the liquefaction cycle. In this work, a single-effect absorption chiller ...
Tópico(s): Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
2017 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
Paolo G. Arduino, Adriana Cafaro, Marco Garrone, Alessio Gambino, Marco Cabras, Ercole Romagnoli, Roberto Broccoletti,
Comparison between low-level laser therapy (LLLT) and clonazepam for treating burning mouth syndrome (BMS) patients has never been documented; the aim of this study was to assess the effects of LLLT photobiomodulation versus medical therapy with clonazepam on BMS. Thirty-three patients (25 female, 8 male, mean age = 67.12) were randomly allocated to two different groups: the first one (group A, 18 patients) underwent two laser irradiation sessions weekly for 5 weeks, whereas the second one (group B, 15 ...
Tópico(s): Voice and Speech Disorders
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Lasers in Medical Science
Alessio Tafone, Fabio Dal Magro, Alessandro Romagnoli,
One of the main benefits of using oxygen enriched combustion in Waste-to-Energy plants is the reduction of losses at the stack due to the reduced flue gas production. At the same time, the electricity required by the Air Separation Unit to generate the oxygen, leads to a penalty in energy efficiency that puts at stake its economic feasibility. In order to overcome that criticality, an opportunity is offered by the possibility to exploit one of the main by-products of the Air Separation Units (i.e. ...
Tópico(s): Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
2018 - Elsevier BV | Applied Energy
Ilenia D’Alessio, Maurizio Domanin, Daniele Bissacco, Silvia Romagnoli, Pierantonio Rimoldi, Fabrizio Sammartano, Osvaldo Chiara,
Background Arterial traumas of the extremities are quite rare in civilian records; nevertheless, patients with trauma of limbs are admitted daily in emergency departments worldwide. The up-to-date information about epidemiology and treatment (open vs. endovascular surgery) comes from war records and it is not always easy getting data on mortality and morbidity in these patients. The aim of this study is to analyze the approach (open or endovascular) and the outcome of patients with vascular trauma ...
Tópico(s): Trauma Management and Diagnosis
2019 - Elsevier BV | Annals of Vascular Surgery
Serena Pelusi, Guido Baselli, Alessandro Pietrelli, Paola Dongiovanni, Benedetta Donati, Misti McCain, Marica Meroni, Anna Ludovica Fracanzani, Renato Romagnoli, Salvatore Petta, Antonio Grieco, Luca Miele, Giorgio Soardo, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Silvia Fargion, Alessio Aghemo, Roberta D’Ambrosio, Chao Xing, Stefano Romeo, Raffaele De Francesco, Helen L. Reeves, Luca Valenti,
Abstract Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a rising cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We examined whether inherited pathogenic variants in candidate genes (n = 181) were enriched in patients with NAFLD-HCC. To this end, we resequenced peripheral blood DNA of 142 NAFLD-HCC, 59 NAFLD with advanced fibrosis, and 50 controls, and considered 404 healthy individuals from 1000 G. Pathogenic variants were defined according to ClinVar, likely pathogenic as rare variants predicted to alter protein ...
Tópico(s): Hepatitis C virus research
2019 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Emiliano Borri, Alessio Tafone, Gabriel Zsembinszki, Gabriele Comodi, Alessandro Romagnoli, Luisa F. Cabeza,
The increasing penetration of renewable energy has led electrical energy storage systems to have a key role in balancing and increasing the efficiency of the grid. Liquid air energy storage (LAES) is a promising technology, mainly proposed for large scale applications, which uses cryogen (liquid air) as energy vector. Compared to other similar large-scale technologies such as compressed air energy storage or pumped hydroelectric energy storage, the use of liquid air as a storage medium allows a high ...
Tópico(s): Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Applied Sciences
Stefano Mazzoni, Sean Ooi, Alessio Tafone, Emiliano Borri, Gabriele Comodi, Alessandro Romagnoli,
Storage technologies play a crucial role in polygeneration plants that attempt to integrate power, thermal and cooling energy systems in order to maximize process efficiency and reduce operating cost. With the increasing penetration of renewable energy into the plant, storage technologies help to dampen the intermittency problem in their energy supply whilst at the same time perform peak shaving to reduce primary energy consumption, thus mitigating pollutant emission. Among the various storage technologies, ...
Tópico(s): Advanced battery technologies research
2019 - Elsevier BV | Energy Procedia
Giulia Bardasi, A Romagnoli, Maria Pia Foschini, Alessio Mantovani, Patrizia Alvisi,
Inflammatory bowel diseases can occur with a wide range of extraintestinal symptoms, among which pyostomatitis vegetans, that is a rare but almost pathognomonic finding. We report the case of a 9-year-old female patient affected by ulcerative colitis and recently treated for an oral candidiasis, who experienced a relapse in her ulcerative colitis (PUCAI 50), preceded by the return of whitish lesions in the oral cavity, initially misdiagnosed and unsuccessfully treated as candidiasis and then recognized ...
Tópico(s): Tumors and Oncological Cases
2020 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Alessio Tafone, Roberto Pili, Martin Pihl Andersen, Alessandro Romagnoli,
Carnot batteries represent an emerging thermo-mechanical energy storage technology based on the conversion of surplus electricity into medium–low temperature heat, and subsequent conversion of the heat into electricity. A promising Carnot battery's configuration is the Compressed Heat Energy Storage (CHEST) that combines a high-temperature heat pump (charge phase), an Organic Rankine Cycle (discharge phase) and a thermal energy storage (TES) system. As of now, all the literature studies on CHEST were ...
Tópico(s): Phase Change Materials Research
2023 - Elsevier BV | Applied Thermal Engineering
Alessio Tafone, Emiliano Borri, Luisa F. Cabeza, Alessandro Romagnoli,
Electrical energy storage represents a necessary link between sustainability goals and the enhancement of intermittent renewable energy sources penetration in electricity grids. Liquid air energy storage (LAES) is a promising large scale thermo-mechanical energy storage system whose round trip efficiency is largely affected by the performance of the sub-thermal energy storages. The high grade cold storage (HGCS) is by far the most important due to the crucial thermodynamic recovery of the waste cold ...
Tópico(s): Thermodynamic and Exergetic Analyses of Power and Cooling Systems
2021 - Elsevier BV | Applied Energy
Davide Pivetta, Alessio Tafone, Stefano Mazzoni, Alessandro Romagnoli, Rodolfo Taccani,
Tópico(s): Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
2024 - Elsevier BV | Renewable Energy
Alessio Tafone, Sundar Raj Thangavelu, Shigenori Morita, Alessandro Romagnoli,
The global growth in demand for space cooling is becoming a pressing and critical energy issue potentially having a major impact on the electricity system and the environment. Due to their capabilities to efficiently provide multiple energy services (i.e. mainly electricity, cooling and heat) for urban districts like universities and hospitals, decentralized polygeneration systems can significantly contribute to tackle this issue with several energetic, economic and environmental benefits. Indeed, ...
Tópico(s): Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
2022 - Elsevier BV | Applied Energy