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Giorgio Conti

Researcher at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

Publications -  329
Citations -  17264

Giorgio Conti is an academic researcher from Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. The author has contributed to research in topics: Intensive care & Mechanical ventilation. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 304 publications receiving 15238 citations. Previous affiliations of Giorgio Conti include The Catholic University of America & Sapienza University of Rome.

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Uncommon barotrauma while on high-flow nasal cannula.

TL;DR: High-flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy (HFNC) as long been considered a safe treatment, hence the term “gentle CPAP” partly describing its mechanism, but in young infants mediastinal displacement may occur both as a result of air leak syndromes and interstitial emphysema, as in this case.
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Ex Vivo Effect of Varespladib on Secretory Phospholipase A2 Alveolar Activity in Infants with ARDS

TL;DR: Varespladib significantly inhibits sPLA2 in BAL of infants affected by post-neonatal ARDS, and inhibition seems to be inversely related to the severity of gas exchange impairment.
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Measles-induced respiratory distress, air-leak and ARDS.

TL;DR: It is concluded that early respiratory assessment and timely PICU referral is of mainstem importance in the youngest infants with measles-induced respiratory failure and the protean nature of clinical presentation and the possibility of rapid respiratory deterioration should be highlighted.
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Nusinersen in type 0 spinal muscular atrophy: should we treat?

TL;DR: These findings, expanding the results available on Nusinersen, confirm its relative efficacy in the most severely affected infants and provide clinical evidence to be used at the time requests for treating severe infants are discussed.