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Iacopo Olivotto

Iacopo Olivotto

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Medicine

D-Index
92
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41423
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National Ranking
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Overview

Iacopo Olivotto is affiliated with the University of Florence in Italy and focuses their research on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Their body of work spans multiple topics related to heart diseases, particularly cardiomyopathies and the molecular mechanisms underlying these conditions.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies (2023, European Heart Journal)
  • Mavacamten for treatment of symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (EXPLORER-HCM): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial (2020, The Lancet)
  • Myosin Sequestration Regulates Sarcomere Function, Cardiomyocyte Energetics, and Metabolism, Informing the Pathogenesis of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2020, Circulation)
  • Cardiac Involvement in Fabry Disease (2021, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • Evidence-Based Guideline for the diagnosis and management of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (2023, Nature Reviews Rheumatology)

Their frequent co-authors reflect a collaborative approach within cardiovascular research and include:

  • Anjali Owens
  • Francesco Cappelli
  • Sara Saberi
  • Daniel Jacoby
  • Carlo Fumagalli

Olivotto has published in a variety of journals, with repeated contributions to several prominent venues such as:

  • European Heart Journal (52 publications)
  • Circulation (32 publications)
  • International Journal of Cardiology (28 publications)
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology (25 publications)
  • European Heart Journal Supplements (17 publications)

Their domain expertise lies broadly within medicine, with a strong sub-specialization in cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Other documented subfields include molecular biology, epidemiology, surgery, and physiology.

The main research topics focus on:

  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiovascular Effects of Exercise
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

Best Publications

  • Effect of left ventricular outflow tract obstruction on clinical outcome in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Martin S. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Sandro Betocchi;Susan A. Casey

  • Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Normal Blood Pressure, and Echocardiographic Right Ventricular Dysfunction

    Stefano Grifoni;Iacopo Olivotto;Paolo Cecchini;Filippo Pieralli

  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Is Predominantly a Disease of Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction

    Martin S. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Andrey G. Zenovich;Mark S. Link

  • Mavacamten for treatment of symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (EXPLORER-HCM): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial

    Iacopo Olivotto;Artur Oreziak;Roberto Barriales-Villa;Theodore P. Abraham

  • Epidemiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-related death: revisited in a large non-referral-based patient population.

    Barry J. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Paolo Spirito;Susan A. Casey

  • Prognostic Value of Quantitative Contrast-Enhanced Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for the Evaluation of Sudden Death Risk in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Raymond H. Chan;Barry J. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Michael J. Pencina

  • Impact of Atrial Fibrillation on the Clinical Course of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Iacopo Olivotto;Franco Cecchi;Susan A. Casey;Alberto Dolara

  • Coronary microvascular dysfunction and prognosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    Franco Cecchi;Iacopo Olivotto;Roberto Gistri;Roberto Lorenzoni

  • Long-term effects of surgical septal myectomy on survival in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

    Steve R. Ommen;Barry J. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Martin S. Maron

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: present and future, with translation into contemporary cardiovascular medicine

    Barry J. Maron;Steve R. Ommen;Christopher Semsarian;Paolo Spirito

  • Genotype and lifetime burden of disease in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy insights from the sarcomeric human cardiomyopathy registry (SHaRe)

    Carolyn Y. Ho;Sharlene M. Day;Euan A. Ashley;Michelle Michels

  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Phenotype Revisited After 50 Years With Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

    Martin S. Maron;Barry J. Maron;Caitlin Harrigan;Jacki Buros

  • Mitral Valve Abnormalities Identified by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Represent a Primary Phenotypic Expression of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Martin S. Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Caitlin Harrigan;Evan Appelbaum

  • Gender-Related Differences in the Clinical Presentation and Outcome of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Iacopo Olivotto;Martin S. Maron;A. Selcuk Adabag;Susan A. Casey

  • Clinical profile of stroke in 900 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Barry J Maron;Iacopo Olivotto;Pietro Bellone;Maria Rosa Conte

  • Recommendations for participation in competitive and leisure time sport in athletes with cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, and pericarditis: position statement of the Sport Cardiology Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC)

    Antonio Pelliccia;Erik Ekker Solberg;Michael Papadakis;Paolo Emilio Adami

  • Late Sodium Current Inhibition Reverses Electromechanical Dysfunction in Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Raffaele Coppini;Cecilia Ferrantini;Lina Yao;Peidong Fan

  • Myofilament Protein Gene Mutation Screening and Outcome of Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Iacopo Olivotto;Francesca Girolami;Michael J. Ackerman;Stefano Nistri

  • Oral pharmacological chaperone migalastat compared with enzyme replacement therapy in Fabry disease: 18-month results from the randomised phase III ATTRACT study

    Derralynn A Hughes;Kathleen Nicholls;Suma P Shankar;Gere Sunder-Plassmann

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in tuscany: Clinical course and outcome in an unselected regional population

    Franco Cecchi;Iacopo Olivotto;Alessio Montereggi;Gennaro Santoro

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry J. Maron
Barry J. Maron University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Martin S. Maron
Martin S. Maron Tufts University
Magdi H. Yacoub
Magdi H. Yacoub Imperial College London
Euan A. Ashley
Euan A. Ashley Stanford University
Christopher Semsarian
Christopher Semsarian University of Sydney
Steven D. Colan
Steven D. Colan Boston Children's Hospital
Paolo G. Camici
Paolo G. Camici Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Perry M. Elliott
Perry M. Elliott University College London
Claudio Rapezzi
Claudio Rapezzi University of Ferrara
Alexandre C. Pereira
Alexandre C. Pereira Universidade de São Paulo

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