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Raffaella Scarafile
Researcher at Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli
Publications - 53
Citations - 2121
Raffaella Scarafile is an academic researcher from Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ejection fraction & Heart failure. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 49 publications receiving 1822 citations. Previous affiliations of Raffaella Scarafile include University of Naples Federico II.
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Range of right heart measurements in top-level athletes: the training impact.
Antonello D'Andrea,Lucia Riegler,Enrica Golia,Rosangela Cocchia,Raffaella Scarafile,Gemma Salerno,Enrica Pezzullo,Luigi Nunziata,Rodolfo Citro,Sergio Cuomo,Pio Caso,Giovanni Di Salvo,Antonio Cittadini,Maria Giovanna Russo,Raffaele Calabrò,Eduardo Bossone +15 more
TL;DR: Right heart measurements were all significantly greater in elite endurance-trained athletes than in age- and sex-matched strength athletes and controls, delineating the upper limits of RV and RA dimensions in highly- trained athletes.
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Left ventricular early myocardial dysfunction after chronic misuse of anabolic androgenic steroids: a Doppler myocardial and strain imaging analysis
Antonello D'Andrea,Pio Caso,Gemma Salerno,Raffaella Scarafile,Giuseppe De Corato,Claudia Mita,Giovanni Di Salvo,Sergio Severino,Sergio Cuomo,Biagio Liccardo,Nicolino Esposito,Raffaele Calabrò +11 more
TL;DR: Several years after chronic misuse of Anabolic androgenic steroids, power athletes show a subclinical impairment of both systolic and diastolic myocardial function, strongly associated with mean dosage and duration of AAS use.
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Left atrial volume index in highly trained athletes
Antonello D'Andrea,Lucia Riegler,Rosangela Cocchia,Raffaella Scarafile,Gemma Salerno,Rita Gravino,Enrica Golia,Olga Vriz,Rodolfo Citro,Giuseppe Limongelli,Paolo Calabrò,Giovanni Di Salvo,Pio Caso,Maria Giovanna Russo,Eduardo Bossone,Raffaele Calabrò +15 more
TL;DR: In a large population of highly trained athletes, a mild enlargement of LA volume index was relatively common and may be regarded as a physiologic adaptation to exercise conditioning.
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Different effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy on left atrial function in patients with either idiopathic or ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy: a two-dimensional speckle strain study.
Antonello D'Andrea,Pio Caso,Silvio Romano,Raffaella Scarafile,Lucia Riegler,Gemma Salerno,Giuseppe Limongelli,Giovanni Di Salvo,Paolo Calabrò,Luca Del Viscovo,Gianpaolo Romano,Ciro Maiello,Lucio Santangelo,Sergio Severino,Sergio Cuomo,Maurizio Cotrufo,Raffaele Calabrò +16 more
TL;DR: Two-dimensional strain represents a promising non-invasive technique to assess LA atrial myocardial function in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and to assess the effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on LAMyocardial strain during 6 month follow-up.
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Association between left atrial myocardial function and exercise capacity in patients with either idiopathic or ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy: A two-dimensional speckle strain study
Antonello D'Andrea,Pio Caso,Silvio Romano,Raffaella Scarafile,Sergio Cuomo,Gemma Salerno,Lucia Riegler,Giuseppe Limongelli,Giovanni Di Salvo,Massimo Romano,Biagio Liccardo,Raffaele Iengo,Luigi Ascione,Luca Del Viscovo,Paolo Calabrò,Raffaele Calabrò +15 more
TL;DR: LA systolic deformation is more depressed in idiopathic compared with ischemic DCM, and is closely associated with functional capacity during effort, and represents a promising non-invasive technique to assess LA atrial myocardial function in patients with DCM.