Eugenio Picano

CNR, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Italy

Eugenio Picano is Senior Medical Researcher for the Italian National Research Council. He is Director of the Echocardiographic Laboratory at the Institute of Clinical Physiology in Pisa and Scientific Director of the Montevergine Cardiology Clinic in Mercogliano, Italy.

He has given internationally recognized pioneering contributions to the fields of ultrasonic tissue characterization of atherosclerotic plaque and stress echocardiography for the non-invasive diagnosis of coronary artery disease. His current research interests include developments of new practice models to improve economic, social and biological sustainability of medical imaging.

Professor Picano is founder and Editor-in-Chief of the BioMed Central journal, Cardiovascular Ultrasound.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Cardiovascular Disorders > Cardiovascular Imaging (since 15 November 2005)

Links

http://www.eugeniopicano.it

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Exercise-induced pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano with Luna Gargani
  
• 6.4
  MR-IMPACT: comparison of perfusion-cardiac magnetic resonance with single-photon emission computed tomography for the detection of coronary artery disease in a multicentre, multivendor, randomized trial.
  Recommended by Christopher Kramer, Eugenio Picano
  
• 6.0
  Prognostic value of dipyridamole stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 3.0
  Transthoracic Echo-Doppler Assessment of Coronary Microvascular Function Late after Kawasaki Disease.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 6.4
  Estimating risk of cancer associated with radiation exposure from 64-slice computed tomography coronary angiography.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano, Paul Stein
  
• 9.0
  American College of Radiology white paper on radiation dose in medicine.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 3.0
  How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 6.0
  Occupational radiation doses in interventional cardiology: a 15-year follow-up.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 3.0
  Comparison of exercise, dobutamine-atropine and dipyridamole-atropine stress echocardiography in detecting coronary artery disease.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 6.0
  Comparison of radiation doses from multislice computed tomography coronary angiography and conventional diagnostic angiography.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 3.0
  Assessment of vulnerable plaques causing acute coronary syndrome using integrated backscatter intravascular ultrasound.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano
  
• 3.0
  Caffeine decreases exercise-induced myocardial flow reserve.
  Recommended by Eugenio Picano