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Significant recognition of the Director of Cardiac Surgery at Padua University Hospital. The challenges: micro-invasive surgery and Italian artificial heart
PADUA. Professor Gino Gerosa is the new president of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery (Sicch). Director of Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital of Padua, the specialist, originally from Rovereto, pbades to the top of the scientific society by Professor Francesco Musumeci. Other posts for 2019-2020, ratified at the Congress in Rome, include Vice President (Lorenzo Galletti) and Scientific Secretary (Alessandro Parolari).
Gerosa has a long professional experience abroad and received in 1993 the prestigious Alexis Carrel Award, dedicated to the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
"The commitment of Sicch in the fight against cardiovascular disease – guarantees – will be total, also thanks to the action in favor of research carried out by his Foundation.Key points: prevention, information and, when the disease is established, meet the needs of the patient with new technologies to reduce the aggressiveness of cardiac surgery, while ensuring results in the medium and long term.
Microinvasive surgery means for the specialist "not only a mini-access, but the possibility of correcting structural cardiac malformations without using cardiopulmonary bypbad, without opening the chest or stopping the heart." Up until now, the cardiac surgeon has Used to intervene with a needle and a thread, looking directly into the heart.The goal – remarks – is to use the technology of transcatheter with the help of Advanced devices, such as three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography, which becomes the "eye to work inside the heart" and as "we do not have enough hearts to transplant." for the number of patients ", we must also aim for" the development of the total Italian artificial heart ", capable of" guaranteeing – concludes – both survival and an adequate quality of life ".
"I do not believe that there is a man better qualified than Gino Gerosa to represent Italian heart surgery today." For years, in continuity with the historical tradition of the Padua Heart School. and in memory of the late Professor Gallucci, Gerosa is one of the emblems of Venetian excellence health. "With these words, the President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, commented "with great satisfaction" the "deserved" election of the cardiac surgeon of the Padua Hospital at the head of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery (Sicch). "To the remarkable skills of the cardiac surgeon – adds Zaia – Gerosa badociates an extraordinary ability and desire to look to the future, with the commitment to take on new paths, such as microinvasive heart surgery and direct engagement with the heart. development of the Italian total artificial heart.The Sicch – concludes the governor – chose the best, and the Veneto where Gerosa works is proud of it ".
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