Attilio Maseri

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Attilio Maseri
Born(1935-11-12)12 November 1935
King Faisal International Prize (1992)
Lefoulon-Delalande Prize (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsCardiology
Institutions
, Rome, Italy

Attilio Maseri

Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II.[2]

Early life and education

Maseri was born on 12 November 1935. Maseri, a native of Italy, graduated in 1960 with a doctorate in medicine from the University of Padua, followed by further qualifications in cardiology (1963) and nuclear medicine (1968) from the University of Pisa. During this time he worked as a research fellow at Columbia University (1965) and Johns Hopkins University (1966).[1] He married countess Francesca Florio, member of a local historical family.[3]

Career

In 1967, he became assistant professor in the department of medicine and head of the coronary artery disease research group at the University of Pisa. In 1979 he was appointed professor of cardiovascular medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of the

Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic. From 2002 to 2008, he was a professor of cardiology at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University and director of the cardio-thoracic and vascular department at the San Raffaele Hospital, both in Milan.[1]

Since 2008 he was president of the Fondazione per il Tuo Cuore (Heart Care Foundation), a division of ANMCO (the Italian Cardiological Association), which he co-founded in 1998.[4]

He served on the editorial board of the

New England Journal of Medicine.[5]

Scientific achievements

As a young scientist, one of Maseri's main goals was the measurement of

radioactive tracers, and later developed methods using positron emission tomography to study both blood flow and energy use in the heart.[1]

In Pisa he made the first clinical observations of angina as a primary complaint, not caused by excessive myocardial oxygen demand. He also demonstrated the role of

vasodilators as anti-ischemic drugs.[1] He further elucidated the mechanisms by which coronary artery spasm occurs in variant angina after moving to London.[1]

While at the Hammersmith Hospital, he also showed that there were differences among patients with chronic

vasomotor tone, but the two factors interacted in a different way than was observed in variant angina. In other studies, he demonstrated that vasoconstriction and thrombosis are jointly responsible for ischemic attacks in patients with acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina. He also identified adenosine as a major chemical mediator of ischemic cardiac pain.[1]

With his group in Rome, he developed a hypothesis of dispersed coronary microvascular dysfunction in angina patients with normal coronary angiograms, investigated the mechanisms of angina in patients with

computer tomography to explore cardiac and coronary function.[6]

Maseri described his primary research interest as discovering what makes one patient different from another. In the final stage of his research career, he used the database of patients at the Fondazione per il Tuo Cuore to conduct research into individual paths to pathology.[6]

Honours and awards

Maseri is one of few physicians to be made a lifetime member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (1988).

angina pectoris.[10] He was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1989,[11] and promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the same Order in 2005.[12] John Paul II appointed him Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.[5]

Death

Maseri died on 3 September 2021, at the age of 85.[13]

Bibliography

  • Maseri, Attilio (1995). Ischemic heart disease : a rational basis for clinical practice and clinical research. New York: Churchill Livingstone.
    OCLC 32397557
    .
  • Bibliography of works by Attilio Maseri at WorldCat

References

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  2. ^ Vecchi, Gian Guido (12 April 2013). "Emeritus Pope's Health Problems Age-related". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Addio al professor Maseri, cardiologo e filantropo che amava il Friuli, Messaggero Veneto, ed. Udine, 4 settembre 2021". Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Italian heart scheme seeks 'fit'". ITALY Magazine. 23 May 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  5. ^ a b c "Curriculum Vitae Professor Attilio Maseri" (PDF). ANMCO. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
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  7. ^ "Professor Attillio Maseri". King Faisal Prize. 10 October 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  8. ^ "List of Distinguished Fellowship Awardees" (PDF). American College of Cardiology. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  9. ^ "ESC Gold Medal". European Society of Cardiology. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Historique". Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Institut de France (in French). 12 April 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  12. ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 23 March 2019.
  13. ^ "Morto Attilio Maseri, il cardiologo che curò papa Wojtyla ed Elisabetta II". Il Giorno (in Italian). 3 September 2021. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
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