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  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Antonio Colombo is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, as well as Surgery, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches

Among the recent papers associated with Antonio Colombo are:

  • Dual Antiplatelet Therapy after PCI in Patients at High Bleeding Risk, 2021, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Coronary In-Stent Restenosis, 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Global Chronic Total Occlusion Crossing Algorithm, 2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Repeat Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Transcatheter Prosthesis Dysfunction, 2020, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • MitraClip in secondary mitral regurgitation as a bridge to heart transplantation: 1-year outcomes from the International MitraBridge Registry, 2020, The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Antonio Colombo frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Antonio Mangieri
  • Azeem Latib
  • Bernhard Reimers
  • Matteo Montorfano
  • Francesco Giannini

The most common publication venues where Antonio Colombo's work appears are:

  • JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions
  • Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
  • EuroIntervention
  • The American Journal of Cardiology
  • International Journal of Cardiology

Best Publications

  • A Comparison of Balloon-Expandable-Stent Implantation with Balloon Angioplasty in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

    P. W. Serruys;P. de Jaegere;F. Kiemeneij;C. Macaya

  • A Randomized Comparison of Coronary-Stent Placement and Balloon Angioplasty in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease

    David L Fischman;Martin B Leon;Donald S Baim;Richard A Schatz

  • A Randomized Comparison of a Sirolimus-Eluting Stent with a Standard Stent for Coronary Revascularization

    Marie-Claude Morice;Patrick Serruys;J. Eduardo Sousa;Jean Fajadet

  • Percutaneous Coronary Intervention versus Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting for Severe Coronary Artery Disease

    Patrick W. Serruys;Marie-Claude Morice;A. Pieter Kappetein;Antonio Colombo

  • From vulnerable plaque to vulnerable patient: a call for new definitions and risk assessment strategies: Part II.

    Morteza Naghavi;Peter Libby;Erling Falk;S. Ward Casscells;S. Ward Casscells

  • Incidence, predictors, and outcome of thrombosis after successful implantation of drug-eluting stents.

    Ioannis Iakovou;Thomas Schmidt;Erminio Bonizzoni;Lei Ge

  • Guidelines for percutaneous coronary interventions. The Task Force for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of the European Society of Cardiology.

    Sigmund Silber;Per Albertsson;Francisco F. Avilés;Paolo G. Camici

  • Coronary artery bypass graft surgery versus percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with three-vessel disease and left main coronary disease : 5-year follow-up of the randomised, clinical SYNTAX trial

    Friedrich W. Mohr;Marie Claude Morice;A. Pieter Kappetein;Ted E. Feldman

  • Safety and efficacy of sirolimus- and paclitaxel-eluting coronary stents

    Gregg W. Stone;Jeffrey W. Moses;Stephen G. Ellis;Joachim Schofer

  • Intracoronary Stenting Without Anticoagulation Accomplished With Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance

    Antonio Colombo;Patrick Hall;Shigeru Nakamura;Yaron Almagor

  • Bivalirudin for Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Gregg W. Stone;Brent T. McLaurin;David A. Cox;Michel E. Bertrand

  • Randomized study to assess the effectiveness of slow- and moderate-release polymer-based paclitaxel-eluting stents for coronary artery lesions

    Antonio Colombo;Janusz Drzewiecki;Adrian Banning;Eberhard Grube

  • Exercise-induced ST depression in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. A meta-analysis.

    R Gianrossi;R Detrano;D Mulvihill;K Lehmann

  • Derivation and validation of the predicting bleeding complications in patients undergoing stent implantation and subsequent dual antiplatelet therapy (PRECISE-DAPT) score: a pooled analysis of individual-patient datasets from clinical trials

    Francesco Costa;Francesco Costa;Francesco Costa;David van Klaveren;David van Klaveren;Stefan James;Dik Heg

  • Randomized study to evaluate Sirolimus-eluting stents implanted at coronary bifurcation lesions

    Antonio Colombo;Jeffrey W. Moses;Marie Claude Morice;Josef Ludwig

  • Anatomical and clinical characteristics to guide decision making between coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention for individual patients: development and validation of SYNTAX score II

    Vasim Farooq;David Van Klaveren;Ewout W. Steyerberg;Emanuele Meliga

  • Randomised comparison of implantation of heparin-coated stents with balloon angioplasty in selected patients with coronary artery disease (Benestent II)

    Patrick W. Serruys;Ben Van Hout;Hans Bonnier;Victor Legrand

  • Percutaneous recanalization of chronically occluded coronary arteries: a consensus document: part II.

    Gregg W. Stone;David E. Kandzari;Roxana Mehran;Antonio Colombo

  • Incidence, Predictors, and Outcomes of Aortic Regurgitation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Literature

    Ganesh Athappan;Eshan Patvardhan;E. Murat Tuzcu;Lars Georg Svensson

  • Outcomes in Patients With De Novo Left Main Disease Treated With Either Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Treatment in the Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With TAXUS and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) Trial

    Marie Claude Morice;Patrick W. Serruys;A. Pieter Kappetein;Ted E. Feldman

Frequent Co-Authors

Azeem Latib
Azeem Latib Montefiore Medical Center
Alaide Chieffo
Alaide Chieffo Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Ottavio Alfieri
Ottavio Alfieri Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Francesco Maisano
Francesco Maisano University of Zurich
Carlo Di Mario
Carlo Di Mario University of Florence
Corrado Tamburino
Corrado Tamburino University of Catania
Patrick W. Serruys
Patrick W. Serruys University of Galway
Roxana Mehran
Roxana Mehran Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Giuseppe Sangiorgi
Giuseppe Sangiorgi University of Rome Tor Vergata
George Dangas
George Dangas Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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