Director of Cardiology Division - Full Professor of Cardiology
CAST Policlinico Hospital, University of Catania
Catania, Sicilia, Italy
He is a Full Professor of Cardiology since 2002 in the Cardiology Division of C.A.S.T. (Centro delle Alte Specialità e Trapianti), University of Catania. He introduced in Sicily endomyocardial biopsy and mitral, aortic and pulmonary valvuloplasty, as well as all the alternative procedures to Interventional Cardiology Coronary balloon. He has introduced in Italy the treatment of severe aortic disease by transcatheter aortic valve implantation and the percutaneous mitral valve regurgitation reduction by MitraClip.Operator of about 20,000 diagnostic and interventional procedures in hemodynamics.He was the first in Italy (June 4, 2007) to perform the implantation of biological aortic valve percutaneously on inoperable patients and on October 7, 2008 he made the first mitral clip implant for the treatment of mitral valve prolapse