Carmen Spaccarotella

TL;DR: Admissions for AMI were significantly reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic across Italy, with a parallel increase in fatality and complication rates.

TL;DR: In Italy, the unexpected pandemic of COVID-19 has caused a never-seen-before disaster in terms of hospitalizations and deaths as discussed by the authors, which caused a new coronavirus, SARS-Cov-2.

TL;DR: Use of ECGs recorded on smartwatches might be useful to obtain an earlier diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes; these data need to be further examined in patients with suspected myocardial infarction in whom false-positive and false-negative findings could be better characterized.

TL;DR: Aortic stenosis is the most commonly acquired valvular heart disease in the Western world and the mortality for untreated symptomatic severe AS is up to 50-60% at 2 years in high-risk patients.

TL;DR: Switching from a dual antiplatelet treatment with clopidogrel to ticagrelor is associated with significant modulation in the circulating levels of specific microRNAs, paving the way for the use of circulating microRN as biomarkers of platelets activity in response to specific pharmacological treatments.