Francesca Cortese
Cardiologist at Bari University General Hospital, Italy
Biography
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Francesca Cortese was graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bari in 27/10/2009 with<br />
maximum votes, praise and academic acclaim, with a thesis entitled. “Interventional therapy in diabetic foot:<br />
risk factors, clinical events and prognosis at one year follow-up (a study of 103 cases).”<br />
She took the specialization in cardiology at the University of Bari in 01/10/2015 with maximum votes. Now<br />
she is attending the doctorates at University of Bari.<br />
Expert in echo color Doppler ultrasound, transthoracic, transesophageal echocardiography (mono-bi<br />
dimensional and 3D) and intracardiac one.<br />
Specific skills: echocardiographic assessment of heart transplant recipients, patients with left ventricular<br />
assist devices (left ventricular assist device- LVAD), congenital heart disease in children and in adults, acute<br />
and chronic ischemic heart disease, cardiac resynchronization therapy, cardiomyopathies (hypertrophic<br />
cardiomyopathy, the arrhythmogenic one, dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy) heart valve<br />
diseases.<br />
Active in clinical research in the field of cardiac and vascular ultrasound and endothelial function using the<br />
technique FMD (flow mediated dilation).<br />
Author of several international scientific manuscripts. Reviewer for several international journals.</p>