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Cristina Basso

Cristina Basso

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2025
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Medicine
Italy
2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Cristina Basso is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. Their academic contributions predominantly lie within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Their research portfolio includes significant engagement in Surgery, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Epidemiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work covers several main topics, including cardiovascular effects of exercise, viral infections and immunology research, cardiomyopathy and myosin studies, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, sports injuries and prevention, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, as well as cardiac arrhythmias and treatments.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death, 2022, European Heart Journal
  • 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies, 2023, European Heart Journal
  • 2020 ESC Guidelines on sports cardiology and exercise in patients with cardiovascular disease, 2020, European Heart Journal
  • Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac amyloidosis: a position statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • Reduction of hospitalizations for myocardial infarction in Italy in the COVID-19 era, 2020, European Heart Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Stefania Rizzo
  • Monica De Gaspari
  • Gaetano Thiene
  • Eloisa Arbustini
  • Gaetano Maria De Ferrari

Their research outputs have appeared in multiple journals, showing a notable pattern in certain venues including:

  • The American Journal of Cardiology (84 publications)
  • European Heart Journal (51 publications)
  • European Heart Journal Supplements (26 publications)
  • International Journal of Cardiology (18 publications)
  • Cardiovascular Pathology (18 publications)

Best Publications

  • Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases.

    Alida L. P. Caforio;Sabine Pankuweit;Eloisa Arbustini;Cristina Basso

  • Diagnosis of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia Proposed Modification of the Task Force Criteria

    Frank I. Marcus;William J. McKenna;Duane Sherrill;Cristina Basso

  • Trends in sudden cardiovascular death in young competitive athletes after implementation of a preparticipation screening program.

    Domenico Corrado;Cristina Basso;Andrea Pavei;Pierantonio Michieli

  • Does sports activity enhance the risk of sudden death in adolescents and young adults

    Domenico Corrado;Cristina Basso;Giulio Rizzoli;Maurizio Schiavon

  • Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia

    Frank I. Marcus;William J. McKenna;Duane Sherrill;Cristina Basso

  • Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol Consensus Statement of the Study Group of Sport Cardiology of the Working Group of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology and the Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology

    Domenico Corrado;Antonio Pelliccia;Hans Halvor Bjørnstad;Luc Vanhees

  • Clinical profile of congenital coronary artery anomalies with origin from the wrong aortic sinus leading to sudden death in young competitive athletes.

    Cristina Basso;Barry J Maron;Domenico Corrado;Gaetano Thiene

  • Screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in young athletes.

    Domenico Corrado;Cristina Basso;Maurizio Schiavon;Gaetano Thiene

  • 2020 ESC Guidelines on sports cardiology and exercise in patients with cardiovascular disease.

    Antonio Pelliccia;Sanjay Sharma;Sabiha Gati;Maria Bäck

  • Spectrum of Clinicopathologic Manifestations of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia: A Multicenter Study

    Domenico Corrado;Cristina Basso;Gaetano Thiene;William J McKenna

  • Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. Dysplasia, Dystrophy, or Myocarditis?

    Cristina Basso;Gaetano Thiene;Domenico Corrado;Annalisa Angelini

  • Recommendations for interpretation of 12-lead electrocardiogram in the athlete

    Domenico Corrado;Antonio Pelliccia;Hein Heidbuchel;Sanjay Sharma

  • Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

    Cristina Basso;Domenico Corrado;Frank I Marcus;Andrea Nava

  • Identification of mutations in the cardiac ryanodine receptor gene in families affected with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 2 (ARVD2)

    Natascia Tiso;Dietrich A. Stephan;Andrea Nava;Alessia Bagattin

  • Reduction of hospitalizations for myocardial infarction in Italy in the COVID-19 era.

    Salvatore De Rosa;Carmen Spaccarotella;Cristina Basso;Maria Pia Calabrò

  • Mutation in human desmoplakin domain binding to plakoglobin causes a dominant form of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy

    Alessandra Rampazzo;Andrea Nava;Sandro Malacrida;Giorgia Beffagna

  • Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac amyloidosis: a position statement of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

    Pablo Garcia-Pavia;Claudio Rapezzi;Yehuda Adler;Michael Arad

  • Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Therapy for Prevention of Sudden Death in Patients With Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy/Dysplasia

    Domenico Corrado;Loira Leoni;Mark S. Link;Paolo Della Bella

  • Mutations in Desmoglein-2 Gene Are Associated With Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy

    Kalliopi Pilichou;Andrea Nava;Cristina Basso;Giorgia Beffagna

  • Anomalous origin of coronary arteries and risk of sudden death: A study based on an autopsy population of congenital heart disease

    Carla Frescura;Cristina Basso;Gaetano Thiene;Domenico Corrado

Frequent Co-Authors

Gaetano Thiene
Gaetano Thiene University of Padua
Domenico Corrado
Domenico Corrado University of Padua
Sabino Iliceto
Sabino Iliceto University of Padua
Antonio Pelliccia
Antonio Pelliccia Italian National Olympic Committee
William J. McKenna
William J. McKenna University College London
Hugh Calkins
Hugh Calkins Johns Hopkins University
Mary N. Sheppard
Mary N. Sheppard St George's, University of London
Barry J. Maron
Barry J. Maron University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Gianfranco Sinagra
Gianfranco Sinagra University of Trieste
Frank I. Marcus
Frank I. Marcus University of Arizona

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