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{{Short description|Italian cardiologist}}
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| alma_mater = [[University of Padua]], Italy<br>[[University of Pisa]], Italy
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| workplaces = [[University of Pisa]], Italy<br>{{nowrap|[[Hammersmith Hospital]], [[London]], UK}}<br>[[Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore]], [[Rome]], Italy
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}}'''Attilio Maseri''' (born November 12, 1935) is an Italian [[cardiologist]]. Maseri is considered a leading researcher in the field of [[ischemic heart disease]].<ref name="Conti">{{cite journal | last=Conti | first=C Richard | title=Attilio Maseri | journal=Clinical Cardiology | publisher=Wiley | volume=27 | issue=6 | year=2004 | issn=0160-9289 | doi=10.1002/clc.4960270617 | pages=371–373| pmc=6654358 }}</ref> His patients have included [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref name="Vecchi 2013">{{cite web | last=Vecchi | first=Gian Guido | title=Emeritus Pope’s Health Problems Age-related | website=[[Corriere della Sera]] | date=12 April 2013 | url=http://www.corriere.it/english/13_aprile_12/ratzinger_44bc8c32-a36d-11e2-a571-cfaeac9fffd0.shtml | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref>


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'''Attilio Maseri''' [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|OMRI]] [[Order of St. Gregory the Great|KSG]] (12 November 1935 – 3 September 2021) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[academic]] and [[physician]] specialized in [[cardiology]], considered a leading researcher in the field of [[ischemic heart disease]].<ref name="Conti">{{cite journal | last=Conti | first=C Richard | title=Attilio Maseri | journal=Clinical Cardiology | publisher=Wiley | volume=27 | issue=6 | year=2004 | issn=0160-9289 | doi=10.1002/clc.4960270617 | pages=371–373| pmid=15237701 | pmc=6654358 }}</ref> His patients included [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref name="Vecchi 2013">{{cite web | last=Vecchi | first=Gian Guido | title=Emeritus Pope's Health Problems Age-related | website=[[Corriere della Sera]] | date=12 April 2013 | url=http://www.corriere.it/english/13_aprile_12/ratzinger_44bc8c32-a36d-11e2-a571-cfaeac9fffd0.shtml | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref>
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==Early life and education==

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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).<ref name="Conti"/>
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== Early life and education ==
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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).<ref name="Conti" />
He married countess Francesca Florio, member of a local historical family.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/udine/cronaca/2021/09/04/news/e-morto-il-professor-attilio-maseri-ha-curato-il-papa-e-la-regina-e-molto-ha-fatto-per-il-friuli-1.40665848 |title=Addio al professor Maseri, cardiologo e filantropo che amava il Friuli, Messaggero Veneto, ed. Udine, 4 settembre 2021 |access-date=25 January 2022 |archive-date=14 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914143157/https://messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/udine/cronaca/2021/09/04/news/e-morto-il-professor-attilio-maseri-ha-curato-il-papa-e-la-regina-e-molto-ha-fatto-per-il-friuli-1.40665848 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


== Career ==
== 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 [[University of London]] and director of cardiology at [[Hammersmith Hospital]]. In 1991 he returned to Italy, where he became professor of cardiology at the [[Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore]] in Rome and director of cardiology at the [[Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic]]. From 2001 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]].<ref name="Conti"/>
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 [[University of London]] and director of cardiology at [[Hammersmith Hospital]]. In 1991 he returned to Italy, where he became professor of cardiology at the [[Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore]] in Rome and director of cardiology at 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]].<ref name="Conti" />


Since 2008 he has been 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.<ref name="ITALY2008">{{cite web | title=Italian heart scheme seeks 'fit' | website=ITALY Magazine | date=23 May 2008 | url=http://www.italymagazine.com/italy/lombardy/italian-heart-scheme-seeks-fit | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref>
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.<ref name="ITALY2008">{{cite web | title=Italian heart scheme seeks 'fit' | website=ITALY Magazine | date=23 May 2008 | url=http://www.italymagazine.com/italy/lombardy/italian-heart-scheme-seeks-fit | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref>


He has served on the editorial board of the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]''.<ref name="cv"/>
He served on the editorial board of the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]''.<ref name="cv" />


===Scientific achievements===
=== Scientific achievements ===


As a young scientist, one of Maseri's main goals was the measurement of [[coronary circulation|coronary flow]].<ref name="EHJ">{{cite journal | title=CardioPulse – Leaders in cardiovascular medicine: Attilio Maseri MD| journal=European Heart Journal | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | volume=37 | issue=16 | date=21 April 2016 | issn=0195-668X | doi=10.1093/eurheartj/ehw080 | pages=1260–1267}}</ref> During his time in Pisa he pioneered the use of [[radioactive tracers]], and later developed methods using [[positron emission tomography]] to study both blood flow and energy use in the heart.<ref name="Conti"/>
As a young scientist, one of Maseri's main goals was the measurement of [[coronary circulation|coronary flow]].<ref name="EHJ">{{cite journal | title=CardioPulse – Leaders in cardiovascular medicine: Attilio Maseri MD| journal=European Heart Journal | publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] | volume=37 | issue=16 | date=21 April 2016 | issn=0195-668X | doi=10.1093/eurheartj/ehw080 | pages=1260–1267| pmid=27102808 | doi-access=free }}</ref> During his time in Pisa he pioneered the use of [[radioactive tracers]], and later developed methods using [[positron emission tomography]] to study both blood flow and energy use in the heart.<ref name="Conti" />


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 [[coronary artery spasm]] in [[variant angina]]. His proof, using double [[crossover studies]], that nitrates prevent coronary artery spasm provided the first convincing evidence for the now-widespread clinical use of coronary [[vasodilators]] as [[antianginal|anti-ischemic drugs]].<ref name="Conti"/> He further elucidated the mechanisms by which coronary artery spasm occurs in variant angina after moving to London.<ref name="Conti"/>
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 [[coronary artery spasm]] in [[variant angina]]. His proof, using double [[crossover studies]], that nitrates prevent coronary artery spasm provided the first convincing evidence for the now-widespread clinical use of coronary [[vasodilators]] as [[antianginal|anti-ischemic drugs]].<ref name="Conti" /> He further elucidated the mechanisms by which coronary artery spasm occurs in variant angina after moving to London.<ref name="Conti" />


While at the Hammersmith Hospital, he also showed that there were differences among patients with chronic [[stable angina]] in the [[ischemic threshold|degree of exertion]] at which chest pains occurred. Moreover, that variability was caused by [[coronary artery stenosis|narrowing of the arteries]] in combination with [[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.<ref name="Conti"/>
While at the Hammersmith Hospital, he also showed that there were differences among patients with chronic [[stable angina]] in the [[ischemic threshold|degree of exertion]] at which chest pains occurred. Moreover, that variability was caused by [[coronary artery stenosis|narrowing of the arteries]] in combination with [[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.<ref name="Conti" />


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 [[microvascular angina]], and made fundamental contributions towards identifying the processes by which [[inflammation]] causes heart attacks in unstable angina.<ref name="Conti"/> After moving to Milan, he continued his clinical research using newer techniques such as [[nuclear magnetic resonance]] and [[computer tomography]] to explore cardiac and coronary function.<ref name="EHJ"/>
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 [[microvascular angina]], and made fundamental contributions towards identifying the processes by which [[inflammation]] causes heart attacks in unstable angina.<ref name="Conti" /> After moving to Milan, he continued his clinical research using newer techniques such as [[nuclear magnetic resonance]] and [[computer tomography]] to explore cardiac and coronary function.<ref name="EHJ" />


Maseri has described his primary research interest as discovering what makes one patient different from another. In the final stage of his research career, he has used the database of patients at the Fondazione per il Tuo Cuore to conduct research into individual paths to pathology.<ref name="EHJ"/>
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.<ref name="EHJ" />


==Honours and awards==
== Honours and awards ==
Maseri is one of few physicians to be made a lifetime member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (1988).<ref name="cv">{{cite web | title=Curriculum Vitae Professor Attilio Maseri | website=ANMCO | url=http://www.anmco.it/uploads/u_cms/media/2014/12/5c11d60f4c7e88e5a3b99a265c1ad380.pdf | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> In 1992 he was awarded the [[King Faisal International Prize#Medicine|King Faisal International Prize in Medicine]] for contributions to the understanding of [[coronary artery disease]].<ref name="King Faisal Prize 2012">{{cite web | title=Professor Attillio Maseri | website=King Faisal Prize | date=10 October 2012 | url=http://kingfaisalprize.org/professor-Attillio-Maseri/ | access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref> In 1997 the [[American College of Cardiology]] presented him with its Distinguished Scientist Award.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.acc.org/~/media/Non-Clinical/Files-PDFs-Excel-MS-Word-etc/Membership/Award%20Programs/List%20of%20Distinguished%20Fellowship%20Awardees%201966%202014.pdf?la=en| website=[[American College of Cardiology]]| title=List of Distinguished Fellowship Awardees| access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref> In 2002 he received the Gold Medal of the [[European Society of Cardiology]].<ref name="European Society of Cardiology 2019">{{cite web | title=ESC Gold Medal | website=European Society of Cardiology | date=22 March 2019 | url=https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/About/Awards/ESC-Gold-Medal | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> In 2004 he accepted the [[Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande]] for clinical investigations of [[vasomotor]] function in [[angina pectoris]].<ref name="Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Institut de France 2012">{{cite web | title=Historique | website=Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Institut de France | date=12 April 2012 | url=http://lefoulon-delalande.institut-de-france.fr/historique-0 | language=fr | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> He was made Commander of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] in 1989,<ref>{{cite web | title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana | website=Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica | url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/272342 | language=it | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2005.<ref>{{cite web | title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana | website=Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica | url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/158156 | language=it | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> John Paul II appointed him Knight Commander of the [[Order of St. Gregory the Great]].<ref name="cv"/>
Maseri is one of few physicians to be made a lifetime member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (1988).<ref name="cv">{{cite web | title=Curriculum Vitae Professor Attilio Maseri | website=ANMCO | url=http://www.anmco.it/uploads/u_cms/media/2014/12/5c11d60f4c7e88e5a3b99a265c1ad380.pdf | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> In 1992 he was awarded the [[King Faisal International Prize#Medicine|King Faisal International Prize in Medicine]] for contributions to the understanding of [[coronary artery disease]].<ref name="King Faisal Prize 2012">{{cite web | title=Professor Attillio Maseri | website=King Faisal Prize | date=10 October 2012 | url=http://kingfaisalprize.org/professor-Attillio-Maseri/ | access-date=12 August 2018}}</ref> In 1997 the [[American College of Cardiology]] presented him with its Distinguished Scientist Award.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.acc.org/~/media/Non-Clinical/Files-PDFs-Excel-MS-Word-etc/Membership/Award%20Programs/List%20of%20Distinguished%20Fellowship%20Awardees%201966%202014.pdf?la=en| website=[[American College of Cardiology]]| title=List of Distinguished Fellowship Awardees| access-date=22 March 2019}}</ref> In 2002 he received the Gold Medal of the [[European Society of Cardiology]].<ref name="European Society of Cardiology 2019">{{cite web | title=ESC Gold Medal | website=European Society of Cardiology | date=22 March 2019 | url=https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/About/Awards/ESC-Gold-Medal | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> In 2004 he accepted the [[Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande]] for clinical investigations of [[vasomotor]] function in [[angina pectoris]].<ref name="Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Institut de France 2012">{{cite web | title=Historique | website=Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande Institut de France | date=12 April 2012 | url=http://lefoulon-delalande.institut-de-france.fr/historique-0 | language=fr | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> He was appointed Commander of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] in 1989,<ref>{{cite web | title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana | website=Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica | url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/272342 | language=it | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> and promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the same Order in 2005.<ref>{{cite web | title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana | website=Il sito ufficiale della Presidenza della Repubblica | url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/158156 | language=it | access-date=23 March 2019}}</ref> John Paul II appointed him Knight Commander of the [[Order of St. Gregory the Great]].<ref name="cv" />


==Bibliography==
== Death ==
Maseri died on 3 September 2021, at the age of 85.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=3 September 2021|title=Morto Attilio Maseri, il cardiologo che curò papa Wojtyla ed Elisabetta II|url=https://www.ilgiorno.it/cronaca/morto-cardiologo-maseri-1.6762808|url-status=live|access-date=4 September 2021|website=[[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]]|language=it|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903234436/https://www.ilgiorno.it/cronaca/morto-cardiologo-maseri-1.6762808 |archive-date=3 September 2021 }}</ref>
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* {{cite book | last=Maseri | first=Attilio | title=Ischemic heart disease : a rational basis for clinical practise and clinical research | publisher=Churchill Livingstone | publication-place=New York | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-443-07910-8 | oclc=32397557 | page=}}

== Bibliography ==
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* {{cite book | last=Maseri | first=Attilio | title=Ischemic heart disease : a rational basis for clinical practice and clinical research | publisher=Churchill Livingstone | publication-place=New York | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-443-07910-8 | oclc=32397557 }}
* [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/72377363 Bibliography of works by Attilio Maseri at WorldCat]
* [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/containsVIAFID/72377363 Bibliography of works by Attilio Maseri at WorldCat]


==References==
== References ==
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Latest revision as of 11:03, 28 September 2023

Attilio Maseri
Born(1935-11-12)12 November 1935
Udine, Italy
Died3 September 2021(2021-09-03) (aged 85)
Tolmezzo, Italy
Alma mater
Known forcoronary artery disease
AwardsKing Faisal International Prize (1992)
Lefoulon-Delalande Prize (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsCardiology
Institutions

Attilio Maseri OMRI KSG (12 November 1935 – 3 September 2021) was an Italian academic and physician specialized in cardiology, considered a leading researcher in the field of ischemic heart disease.[1] His patients included Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II.[2]

Early life and education

[edit]

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

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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 University of London and director of cardiology at Hammersmith Hospital. In 1991 he returned to Italy, where he became professor of cardiology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome and director of cardiology at 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

[edit]

As a young scientist, one of Maseri's main goals was the measurement of coronary flow.[6] During his time in Pisa he pioneered the use 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 coronary artery spasm in variant angina. His proof, using double crossover studies, that nitrates prevent coronary artery spasm provided the first convincing evidence for the now-widespread clinical use of coronary 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 stable angina in the degree of exertion at which chest pains occurred. Moreover, that variability was caused by narrowing of the arteries in combination with 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 microvascular angina, and made fundamental contributions towards identifying the processes by which inflammation causes heart attacks in unstable angina.[1] After moving to Milan, he continued his clinical research using newer techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance and 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

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Maseri is one of few physicians to be made a lifetime member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars (1988).[5] In 1992 he was awarded the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine for contributions to the understanding of coronary artery disease.[7] In 1997 the American College of Cardiology presented him with its Distinguished Scientist Award.[8] In 2002 he received the Gold Medal of the European Society of Cardiology.[9] In 2004 he accepted the Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Lefoulon-Delalande for clinical investigations of vasomotor function in 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

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

Bibliography

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  • Maseri, Attilio (1995). Ischemic heart disease : a rational basis for clinical practice and clinical research. New York: Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 978-0-443-07910-8. OCLC 32397557.
  • Bibliography of works by Attilio Maseri at WorldCat

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Conti, C Richard (2004). "Attilio Maseri". Clinical Cardiology. 27 (6). Wiley: 371–373. doi:10.1002/clc.4960270617. ISSN 0160-9289. PMC 6654358. PMID 15237701.
  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.
  6. ^ a b c "CardioPulse – Leaders in cardiovascular medicine: Attilio Maseri MD". European Heart Journal. 37 (16). Oxford University Press: 1260–1267. 21 April 2016. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw080. ISSN 0195-668X. PMID 27102808.
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