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2023

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134
Citations
101856
World Ranking
2099
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  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Marco Metra is affiliated with the University of Brescia in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a primary focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. With a publication count exceeding one thousand in this area, their research spans multiple subfields including surgery, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The main topics covered in Marco Metra's body of work include heart failure treatment and management, cardiovascular function and risk factors, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, diabetes treatment and management, and mechanical circulatory support devices.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Marco Metra demonstrate their engagement with contemporary challenges in cardiology. These include:

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2021, European Heart Journal
  • 2022 ESC Guidelines on cardio-oncology developed in collaboration with the European Hematology Association (EHA), the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO) and the International Cardio-Oncology Society (IC-OS), 2022, European Heart Journal
  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, 2022, European Journal of Heart Failure
  • Cardiac Involvement in a Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), 2020, JAMA Cardiology
  • Sotagliflozin in Patients with Diabetes and Recent Worsening Heart Failure, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

Marco Metra frequently collaborates with several researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Marianna Adamo, Daniela Tomasoni, Gerasimos Filippatos, Piotr Ponikowski, and Adriaan A. Voors.

Publication venues where their work regularly appears reflect their areas of specialization. These include:

  • European Journal of Heart Failure
  • European Heart Journal
  • ESC Heart Failure
  • Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
  • JACC Heart Failure

Best Publications

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation): Developed in Collaboration With the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure.

    Theresa A McDonagh;Marco Metra;Marianna Adamo;Roy S Gardner

  • Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease The Task Force on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology

    Alec Vahanian;Helmut Baumgartner;Jeroen Bax;Eric Butchart

  • Comparison of carvedilol and metoprolol on clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure in the Carvedilol Or Metoprolol European Trial (COMET): randomised controlled trial

    Philip A. Poole-Wilson;Karl Swedberg;John G.F. Cleland;Andrea Di Lenarda

  • Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases: executive summary. The Task Force on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

    Lars Rydén;Eberhard Standl;Małgorzata Bartnik;Greet Van den Berghe

  • Cardiac Involvement in a Patient With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

    Riccardo M. Inciardi;Laura Lupi;Gregorio Zaccone;Leonardo Italia

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation--executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation)

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • Effect of nesiritide in patients with acute decompensated heart failure.

    C. M. O'Connor;R. C. Starling;A. F. Hernandez;P. W. Armstrong

  • Sotagliflozin in Patients with Diabetes and Recent Worsening Heart Failure

    Deepak L. Bhatt;Michael Szarek;P. Gabriel Steg;Christopher P. Cannon

  • EURObservational Research Programme: regional differences and 1-year follow-up results of the Heart Failure Pilot Survey (ESC-HF Pilot).

    Aldo P. Maggioni;Ulf Dahlstrom;Gerasimos Filippatos;Ovidiu Chioncel

  • Serelaxin, recombinant human relaxin-2, for treatment of acute heart failure (RELAX-AHF): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial

    John R Teerlink;Gad Cotter;Beth A Davison;G Michael Felker

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death

    Douglas P. Zipes;A. John Camm;Martin Borggrefe;Alfred E. Buxton

  • Universal definition and classification of heart failure: a report of the Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, Japanese Heart Failure Society and Writing Committee of the Universal Definition of Heart Failure: Endorsed by the Canadian Heart Failure Society, Heart Failure Association of India, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, and Chinese Heart Failure Association.

    Biykem Bozkurt;Andrew J.S. Coats;Hiroyuki Tsutsui;Ca Magdy Abdelhamid

  • Prognostic relevance of atrial fibrillation in patients with chronic heart failure on long-term treatment with beta-blockers: results from COMET

    Karl Swedberg;Lars G. Olsson;Andrew Charlesworth;John Cleland

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation: full text: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on practice guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 2001 guidelines for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation) developed in collaboration with the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Heart Rhythm Society

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • The use of diuretics in heart failure with congestion - a position statement from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology

    Wilfried Mullens;Kevin Damman;Veli Pekka Harjola;Alexandre Mebazaa

  • Tocilizumab for the treatment of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with hyperinflammatory syndrome and acute respiratory failure: A single center study of 100 patients in Brescia, Italy.

    Paola Toniati;Simone Piva;Marco Cattalini;Emirena Garrafa

  • Are hospitalized or ambulatory patients with heart failure treated in accordance with European Society of Cardiology guidelines? Evidence from 12,440 patients of the ESC Heart Failure Long-Term Registry.

    Aldo P Maggioni;Stefan D Anker;Ulf Dahlström;Gerasimos Filippatos

  • ACC/AHA/ESC 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation—Executive Summary

    Valentin Fuster;Lars E. Rydén;David S. Cannom;Harry J. Crijns

  • Executive summary of the guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute heart failure

    Nieminen Ms;Böhm M;Drexler H

Frequent Co-Authors

Adriaan A. Voors
Adriaan A. Voors University Medical Center Groningen
Piotr Ponikowski
Piotr Ponikowski Wrocław Medical University
John G.F. Cleland
John G.F. Cleland University of Glasgow
John R. Teerlink
John R. Teerlink University of California, San Francisco
Gerasimos Filippatos
Gerasimos Filippatos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Gad Cotter
Gad Cotter Momentum Research Inc
Kenneth Dickstein
Kenneth Dickstein University of Bergen
G. Michael Felker
G. Michael Felker Duke University
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
Dirk J. van Veldhuisen University Medical Center Groningen

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