Andrea Blasio

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Specialty:

Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiac Surgery

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Department of Cardiac Surgery @ Ospedale San Raffaele

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Biography

Dr. Andrea Blasio is currently the Head of the Functional Unit for Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Ospedale San Raffaele Clinical Research Institute in Milan, headed by Professor Alessandro Castiglioni. In addition, he serves as the contact person for the quality and hospital planning unit.

After graduating in 1996 from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Milan, he specialized in cardiac surgery at the same university in 2003.

Dr. Blasio works as senior cardiac surgeon at the Cardiac Surgery Unit of the Ospedale San Raffaele Clinical Research Institute in Milan, and he is the Head of the Functional Unit for Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques. As the first surgeon, he performed 1350 interventions, surgical procedures (planned and urgent) cover all areas of cardiac surgery in adults.

His main area of interest is mitral and aortic valve surgery using minimally invasive and video-assisted techniques. Dr. Blasio also has a particular interest in the prevention, detection and treatment of surgical site infections.

He is the author and co-author of 40 publications in industry scientific journals and chapters in books, his Hirsch index is 7. He constantly participates in national and international industry congresses.

Education

University of Milan
Diploma in Medicine and Surgery - 1996

University of Milan
Specialty in Cardiac Surgery - 2003

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Publications

Latest publications

Rivascolarizzazione transmiocardica laser in pazienti con coronarosclerosi periferica. Indicazioni e risultati preliminari.

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia 1997; 27:430-435

Donatelli F, Triggiani M, D'Ancona G, Blasio A, Santoro F, Marchetto G, Benussi S, Grossi A.

Surgical restoration of the left ventricle for postinfarction aneurysm.

Ital Heart J; 3(6): 370-374

Castiglioni A, Quarti A, Schreuder J, Blasio A, Benussi S, Torracca L, Maisano F, Alfieri O.

Midterm results of edge-to-edge mitral valve repair without annuloplasty

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 126: 1987-1997

Francesco Maisano, Alessandro Caldarola, Andrea Blasio, Michele De Bonis, Giovanni La Canna, and Ottavio Alfieri

Percutaneous Valve interventions

Current Cardiology Reviews, 2006,2, 29-36

Francesco Maisano, Matteo Montorfano, Andrea Blasio, Iassen Michev, Giovanni La Canna, Antonio Colombo, Ottavio Alfieri.

Surgical isolated edge-to-edge mitral valve repair without annuloplasty: clinical proof of the principle for an endovascular approach.

EuroIntervention. 2006 Aug;2(2):181-6.

Maisano F, Viganò G, Blasio A, Colombo A, Calabrese C, Alfieri O.

Extraanatomic Bypass for Recurrent Aortic Coarctation Involving the Arch and Replacement of the Ascending Aorta via Sternotomy.

Innovations;1: 167-168

Andrea Blasio, Stefano Benussi, Lorenzo Arcobasso, Ottavio Alfieri

In attesa degli studi randomizzati, come procede il confronto tra by-pass e stent nella coronaropatia multivasale? Conoscere e curare il cuore 2008-03-11 Atti del XXV congresso del Centro per la lotta contro l’infarto.

Atti del XXV congresso del Centro per la lotta contro l’infarto Fondazione Onlus Firenze, 7-9 Marzo 2008

A. Blasio, O.Alfieri.

Quality of life of elderly patients following valve surgery for chronic organic mitral regurgitation.

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2009 Aug;36(2):261-6; discussion 266. Epub 2009 Apr 15.

Maisano F, Viganò G, Calabrese C, Taramasso M, Denti P, Blasio A, Guidotti A, Alfieri O.

A case of poststernotomy pseudoaneurysm of the left internal thoracic artery.

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, 9(4):433-334, April 2008.

Andrea Blasio; Francesco Maisano; Stefano Moriggia; Lorenzo Arcobasso; Ottavio Alfieri.

Surgical correction of a saccular descending aortic aneurysm.

HSR Proceedings in Intensive Care and Cardiovascular Anesthesia 2012; 4(3): 193

A.Blasio, G. Negri, A. Guidotti, O. Alfieri

Transapical Approach for Transcatheter Mitral Perivalvular Leak Closure: Mid-term Outcomes of a Single Center Experience

Europcr 2015 - Oral Presentation, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy.

Alberto Pozzoli, Andrea Blasio, Azeem Latib, Paolo Denti, Maurizio Taramasso, Francesco Maisano, Antonio Colombo, Ottavio Alfieri

St. Jude Medical Trifecta aortic valve: results from a prospective regional multicentre registry

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2015, 10:169 (20 November 2015)

Mariscalco G, Mariani S, Bichi S, Biondi A, Blasio A, Borsani P, Corti F, De Chiara B et al.

Chirurgia Cardiaca. In: Le Terapie della Deiscenza dell'Incisione Chirurgica

A cura di: Marco Fraccalvieri (2015) TORINO: Edizioni Minerva Medica S.p.A

Blasio A, Giacomini A

Can Perceval sutureless valve reduce the rate of patient-prosthesis mismatch?

European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (2017) 51 (6): 1093-1099

Igor Belluschi, StefanoMoriggia, Andrea Giacomini, Benedetto Del Forno, Stefania Di Sanzo, Andrea Blasio, Antonio Scafuri and Ottavio Alfieri

Raccomandazioni per la prevenzione perioperatoria delle infezioni del sito chirurgico.

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A.Blasio, N.Petrosillo, M. Pittiruti, F. Raggi, G.Toccafondi

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