Francesca Macera Email & Phone Number

Medical doctor, graduated in Milan in 2000 (110/110 cum laude) and specialized in Internal Medicine in 2006 (70/70 cum laude).Employed at Niguarda Hospital (Milan, Italy) as cardiologist since 2005; get experience as clinical cardiologist, heart failure specialist and heart transplant specialist.Skills:- Management of heart failure, from mild-moderate disease to advanced and refractory stage- Diagnosis and therapy of a broad spectrum of cardiomyopathies (idiopathic, inflammatory, familial, hypertrophic, obstructive, constrictive, hypertensive, ischemic, infiltrative, …)- Selection and management of patients for heart transplantation and for implantation of ventricular assistance devices (VADs)- Management of patients with transplanted heart, diagnosis and therapy of the most frequent complications (cellular or antibodies-mediated rejection, coronary allograft vasculopathy, infections, post-transplant malignancies, chronic kidney insufficiency)- Daily management of patient with VADs, early diagnosis and therapy of the complications (GI bleeding, ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, infections, device thrombosis)- Experience in execution of right heart catheterization (for diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension) and endomyocardial biopsy (for monitoring of rejection in heart transplanted patients, for diagnosis of acute myocarditis or inflammatory/substitutive cardiomyopathies)- Experience in execution of transthoracic echocardiography and in interpretation and execution of cardiopulmonary ergometric testExperience in conduction of several clinical trials (multicentric, national and international), as co-investigator.Since 2007 member of ANMCO (Associazione Nazionale Medici Cardiologi Ospedalieri).2016-2018 member of Coordinating Committee for Heart Failure, ANMCO.Experience as speaker, chairman or discussant in several national and international congresses.

Listed skills include Insufficienza Cardiaca, Trapianto Cardiaco, Assistenza Meccanica Al Circolo, and Ecocardiografia.