Les Meilleurs doctors pour le traitement d'insuffisance valvulaire aortique en Italie - TOP-5 des médecins

The prof. Giuseppe Speziale holds the positions of the National Coordinator of Cardiac Surgery of GVM Care & Research, the Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Anthea Hospital and Città di Lecce Hospital, and Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the Santa Maria Hospital. He works at the Cardiological Clinical Institute (ICC) and San Carlo di Nancy Hospital in Rome. Since 2011 he has also held the position of Vice President of GVM Care & Research. In 2012 he occupied the charge of President of Confindustria Puglia, Health Section, and since 2018 he is Vice President of Aiop Puglia (Italian association of private hospitals). The prof. Speziale is a cardiac surgeon specializing in the minimally invasive surgical treatment of valve diseases, expert in minimally invasive repair of the mitral valve, in On and Off Pump myocardial revascularization, in thoracic aortic surgery. He is Co - Founder and President of the Scientific Committee of Mitral Academy, an independent association born from the passion for mitral surgery and the desire to pursue and share excellence in restorative surgery, with particular attention to minimally invasive techniques and the evaluation of potential therapeutic treatments deriving from the use of new technologies. Until 2016 he was elected Director of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery. He is part of the following associations: AATS (American Association for Thoracic Surgery), Italian Society of Cardiology Accredited Hospital, SICOA (active member), ISMICS (International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery). Since 2004 he has held the position of Scientific Director of the Italian Cardiopathic Association onlus.

In the field of scientific research, he focuses on new approaches, applicable in the field of minimally invasive and non-invasive mitral, aortic, cardiac arrhythmias and tricuspid surgery. He was the coordinator and researcher of the various projects of the National Research Council on Myocardial Infarction, on the treatment of pulmonary hypertension, on new technologies for carrying out coronary, cardiopulmonary and normothermic bypass. He was an adjunct professor at the Sapienza University of Rome where he held the Chair of Cardiology II, and at the University of Ferrara, where he teaches Cardiac Surgery. He has presented numerous scientific papers at national and international congresses of cardiology and cardiac surgery.

Bibliography: He is co-author of 6 books known nationally and internationally. The most recent one is Advances in Treatments for Aortic Valve and Root Diseases, publisher Springer International Publishing, 2018.

He is Reviewer and author of over 90 publications of multiple journals, such as Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, Heart & Lung: The Journal of Cardiopulmonary and Acute Care, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal on Cardiac, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery etc.

Awards: “Top Doctors Awards”, 2021

Formation Le Dr Castriota est diplômé en Médecine et Chirurgie à l'Université de Milan. Il a poursuivi sa formation postuniversitaire à l'Université de Bologne où il a obtenu deux spécialisations : la première en Cardiologie en 1992, puis en Radiologie. De 1995 à 1996, il a été Fellow à l'"Arizona Heart Institute" sous la direction du Professeur Diethrich.

Recherche Le Dr Castriota est membre actif de plusieurs sociétés scientifiques, telles que la SIRM (Société italienne de radiologie médicale), membre du Collège scientifique de la Société italienne de cardiologie invasive (GISE), membre de la Société européenne de cardiologie (FESC), de la Société européenne d'intervention cardiovasculaire (EAPCI) et de l'ISES, International Society of Endovascular Specialist. Il est l'investigateur principal d'une récente étude Protected TAVR, visant à évaluer l'efficacité d'un dispositif particulier de protection du cerveau pendant la chirurgie de remplacement de la valve aortique en utilisant la méthode endovasculaire TAVI.

Publications Il est membre du comité éditorial international d'Eurointervention, conférencier et président pour l'exécution de cas réels dans des conférences nationales et internationales.

Auteur d'environ 150 publications complètes

Auteur de plus de 20 chapitres dans des volumes spécialisés

Récompenses : Bourse de développement de carrière du NHMRC, Conseil national australien de la santé et de la recherche médicale, 2015.