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Massimo Antonio Padalino

Associate professor of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Precision and regenerative medicine and Jonian Area · University of Bari

https://researchid.co/massimo.padalino
@uniba.it
221Scopus Publications

Research Interests

regenerative medicine

Biography

Massimo Padalino is director of congenital cardiac program lead and Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Bari since January 2024, formerly at the University of Padova. He came back toHe came back to Padova in 2004 and started working as staff pediatric and congenital cardiac surgeon at the Pediatric Cardiac surgery section of the University of Padova. He completed his PhD in Cardiovascular Sciences in 2008 at the same University, where he subsequently achieved his Master in Cardiovascular Pathology (2010) and in Pediatric Cardiology (2014). He is associate professor of cardiac surgery since 2019, and teaches to students in Medical School at the University of Bari, and to students in the Nursing School. He is a senior surgeon with more than 1500 surgical procedures as first surgeon. He is member of EACTS, AEPC, ECHSA, SICP, SICCH, and is chairman of the ECHSA Research Committee. He is Fellow of ESC, and appointed reviewer for several journals in cardiac surgery,

Education

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1995, and he finished his specialty residency in cardiac surgery in 2000 in the same University. Above that, he has been a Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Pathology in 1996-1997 at the Cardiac Registry, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, with Dr Richard Van Praagh. In 2000, he completed his USMLE certification, and he subsequently trained in adult, paediatric and congenital cardiac surgery as Clinical Fellow in USA (Department of Cardiac Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN ,2001; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Childre...

Recent Scopus Publications

  1. Spectral EEG in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case–Control Study in Infants Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
    Pediatric Cardiology, 2026
  2. Quantification of Alpha-Gal Expression in Commercial BioProsthetic Heart Valves and Its Potential Mitigation
    Structural Heart, 2026
  3. Extended Criteria Donor Use in Heart Transplantation: A Promising Strategy to Expand the Donor Pool
    Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2026
  4. Early outcomes of children with univentricular circulation undergoing Fontan surgery: the EuroFontan registry
    European Heart Journal, 2026
  5. Tricuspid Valve Repair in Pediatric Patients Using Artificial Neochordae: Systematic Review of Current Evidence
    World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, 2026

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