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Piero Farina

Piero Farina, MD, MEBCTS

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS
Largo A. Gemelli, 8
Rome  00168
Italy
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Role: 
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic

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Background

2009: MD, Catholic University - Rome, Italy

2015: Specialist in Cardiac Surgery, Gemelli Hospital/Catholic University - Rome, Italy

2015 to 2017: Fellow in Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universitario "Virgen de la Arrixaca"- Murcia, Spain

2017 to 2018: Cardiac Surgeon, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli - Rome, Italy

2017 to present: Lecturer in Cardiac Surgery, Catholic University - Rome, Italy

2018 to 2020: Cardiothoracic Surgery Registrar, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital - Dublin, Ireland

2020 to present: Cardiac Surgeon, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" IRCCS - Rome, Italy

Research

Farina P, Gaudino MFL, Taggart DP. The Eternal Debate With a Consistent Answer: CABG vs PCI. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2019 Aug 20. doi: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2019.08.009.

Chiariello GA, Nesta M, Bruno PG, Pasquini A, Ferraro F, Cammertoni F, Marano R, Colizzi C, Farina P, D’Amario D, Trani C, Massetti M. Total Surgical Plication of Left Ventricular Aneurysm Using the BioVentrix Revivent Myocardial Anchoring System. Innovations (Phila). 2019 Jun 27. doi: 10.1177/1556984519858919 (Epub ahead of print).

Farina P, Gaudino M, Angelini GD. Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: The long and winding road. Int J Cardiol. 2019 Mar 15;279:51-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.09.101

Gaudino M, Glieca F, Luciani N, Pragliola C, Tsiopoulos V, Bruno P, Farina P, Bonalumi G, Pavone N, Nesta M, Cammertoni F, Munjal M, Di Franco A, Massetti M. Systematic bilateral internal mammary artery grafting: lessons learned from the CATHolic University EXtensive BIMA Grafting Study. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2018 Oct 1;54(4):702-707. 

Bruno PG, Farina P, Cammertoni F, Biond R, Perri G, Di Cesare A, Crea F, Massetti M. Mini-aortic valve surgery with percutaneous cannulation and rapid deployment valve. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2016 Jul;24(6):535-40.

Gaudino M, Glineur D, Mazza A, Papadatos S, Farina P, Etienne PY, Fracassi F, Cammertoni F, Crea F, Massetti M. Long-term survival and quality of life in patients submitted to emergency coronary artery bypass grafting for post-infarction cardiogenic shock. Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Mar;101(3):960-6. 

Luciani N, Lauria G, Glieca F, Farina P, Luciani M, Massetti M. Late reopeartions after acute aortic dissection repair: a single-center experience. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2015 Sep;23(7):787-94.

Pragliola C, Gaudino M, Farina P, Massetti M. Postoperative coronary artery spasm after mitral valve replacement. Int J Surg Case Rep 2015 ;8C :185-188.

Luciani N, Farina P, Luciani M, Glieca F. Resurrected interest in the Rhône-Poulenc pump for cardiocirculatory support. Ann Thorac Surg 2015;99:2255-6.

Gaudino M, Farina P, Cammertoni F, Massetti M. Myocardial revascularization with both internal thoracic arteries twenty-five years after delayed repair for aortic coarctation. Interactive Cardiovascolar and Thoracic Surgery, 2014.

Chronic competitive flow from a patent arterial or venous graft to the circumflex system does not impair the long term patency of internal thoracic artery to left anterior descending grafts in patients with isolated predivisional left main disease: long-term angiographic results of two different revascularization strategies. Gaudino M,  Massetti M, Farina P,  Hanet C, Etienne PY,  Mazza A, Glineur D. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014 Feb 10, PMID 24613168 , in press.

Ventricular assist devices as a bridge to transplantation. Gaudino M, Farina P, Bernazzali S, Bruno PG, Sani G, Massetti M. Heart Fail Clin. 2014 Jan;10(1 Suppl):S39-45.

Mechanical circulatory support for acute heart failure in 2013: an update on available devices, indications and results. Massetti M, Bruno P. Minerva Anestesiol 2014;80:373-381 (acknowledged).

The use of internal thoracic artery grafts in patients with aortic coarctation. Gaudino M, Farina P, Toesca A, Bonalumi G, Tsiopoulos V, Bruno P, Massetti M. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2013;44(3):415-418.

From extracorporeal membrane oxygenator to ventricular assist device without sternotomy. Massetti M, Gaudino M, Saplacan V, Farina P. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2013 Jan;32(1):138-139.

Coronary revascularization for absent left main artery. Anselmi A, Morelli M, Farina P, Tsiopoulos V, Glieca F, Possati G. J Card Surg. 2010 Nov;25(6):696-697.

Surgical treatment of type A acute aortic dissection in Octogenarians . Farina P, Glieca F, Possati GF. Eur J Med Res 2010;15(S1): 222-223. Not indexed in Pubmed.  

Bruno P, Farina P, Massetti M, “ECMO for intoxications” in “ECMO: Extracorporeal life support in adults”. Sangalli F, Patroniti N, Pesenti A. Springer-Verlag 2013.

Farina P, “DOLORE TORACICO” (Chest pain) in “Guida pratica al riconoscimento delle vie anatomiche del dolore” (A practical guide to the anatomical pathways for pain). S.L. Nori, S. Manfrida, S. Barbi, V. Valentini. Gruppo editoriale Ecoedizioni Internazionali, ISBN 978-88-900864-4-1.