LUIZ ALBERTO BENVENUTI
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- PEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION PROGRAM: SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE OF 20 YEARS(2013) AZEKA, Estela; GALAS, Filomena; TANAMATI, Carla; PENHA, Juliano; FERNANDES, Marcos; SENAHA, Luciano; XAVIER, Johnny; DELGADO, Ana Beatriz Romani; KAJITA, Luiz; AIELLO, Vera; BENVENUTI, Luiz; MIURA, Nana; AULER JUNIOR, Jose Otavio Costa; JATENE, MarceloOBJECTIVE: Heart transplantation has been the treatment of choice for children with refractory to conventional therapy. To report the experience with heart transplantation in a single center. MATERIAL AND METHODS: To report the single center experience of hearttransplantation. Data analysis was demographic characteristics, clinical outcome and survival Kaplan Meier curve. RESULTS: From October 30, 1992 to October 2nd, 2012, 120 transplants were performed and 115 patients were submitted to heart transplantation at Heart Institute (InCor) University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The causes of indication for transplantation were: cardiomyopathies (76%) and congenital heart disease (24%). Five patients were submitted to re-transplantation. Three of them were re-transplanted on the early postoperative period with high mortality (66.6%). One patient was submitted to simultaneous re-transplantation and kidney transplantation after 13.9 yrs of follow-up and one of patient was successful re-transplanted after 10 yr of follow-up. The post-operative immunosuppression regimen was double immunosuppression and polyclonal anti-thymocyte serum induction therapy. The actuarial survival was 80%, 71%, and 61% at 1, 5, and 10 yr, respectively. CONCLUSION: Heart transplantation has been a promising option for children. The use of double immunosuppression with polyclonal anti-thymocyte serum induction therapy combined with surveillance of acute rejection with non-invasive tests may provide favorable clinical outcome.
- Case 01/2015 - 66 Year Old Woman with Hypertensive Cardiopathy and Acute Decompensated Heart Failure(2015) PESINAT, Raphael Marion; YAMADA, Alice Tatsuko; BENVENUTI, Luiz Alberto
- Diagnostic discrepancies in clinical practice An autopsy study in patients with heart failure(2017) ISSA, Victor Sarli; DINARDI, Layara Fernanda Lipari; PEREIRA, Thiago Vicente; ALMEIDA, Lyna Kyria Rodrigues de; BARBOSA, Thaisa Silveira; BENVENUTTI, Luiz Alberto; AYUB-FERREIRA, Silvia Moreira; BOCCHI, Edimar AlcidesAutopsies are the gold standard for diagnostic accuracy; however, no recent study has analyzed autopsies in heart failure (HF). We reviewed 1241 autopsies (January 2000-May 2005) and selected 232 patients with HF. Clinical and autopsy diagnoses were analyzed and discrepancies categorized according to their importance regarding therapy and prognosis. Mean age was 63.3 +/- 15.9 years; 154 (66.4%) patients were male. The causes of death at autopsy were end-stage HF (40.9%), acute myocardial infarction (17.2%), infection (15.9), and pulmonary embolism 36 (15.5). Diagnostic discrepancies occurred in 191 (82.3%) cases; in 56 (24.1%), discrepancies were related to major diagnoses with potential influence on survival or treatment; pulmonary embolism was the cause of death for 24 (42.9%) of these patients. In 35 (15.1%), discrepancies were related to a major diagnosis with equivocal influence on survival or treatment; in 100 (43.1%), discrepancies did not influence survival or treatment. In multivariate analysis, age (OR: 1.03, 95% CI: 1.008-1.052, P=0.007) and presence of diabetes mellitus (OR: 0.359, 95% CI: 0.168-0.767, P=0.008) influenced the occurrence discrepancies. Diagnostic discrepancies with a potential impact on prognosis are frequent in HF. These findings warrant reconsideration in diagnostic and therapeutic practices with HF patients.
- Myocarditis, histological detection and parasitic load of Trypanosoma cruzi in endomyocardial biopsies presenting with reactivation of Chagas disease after heart transplantation(2023) BENVENUTI, Luiz A.; GUTIERREZ, Paulo S.; AIELLO, Vera D.
bookPart Insuficiência cardíaca congestiva e transplante cardíaco na criança(2016) AZEKA, Estela; RIBEIRO, Anna Christina; THOMAZ, Ana Maria; GUIMARãES, Vanessa; GALAS, Filomena Regina; HOROWITZ, Estela; SIQUEIRA, Adailson; BENVENUTI, Luiz; ZORZANELLI, Leina; JATENE, Marcelo- An autopsy-based study of Trypanosoma cruzi persistence in organs of chronic chagasic patients and its relevance for transplantation(2017) BENVENUTI, Luiz A.; ROGGERIO, Alessandra; CAVALCANTI, Marta M.; NISHIYA, Anna S.; LEVI, Jose E.BackgroundChagas' disease (CD) is caused by infection with the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease can affect the heart and/or the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, but around 70% of infected individuals remain asymptomatic in the chronic form. Organ transplantation from T.cruzi-infected donors is often avoided because of the risk of disease transmission, previously reported after heart, kidney, or liver transplantation. MethodsWe investigated by histology, immunohistochemistry, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) the persistence of T.cruzi in samples of the heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, adrenal gland, esophagus, and GI tract of 21 chronic chagasic patients. ResultsParasite persistence was detected in 12/21 (57.1%) heart samples, mainly by PCR-based assays. T.cruzi parasites were detected by histology and immunohistochemistry in smooth muscle cells of the central vein from 1/21 (4.8%) adrenal gland samples. No samples of the lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, esophagus, or GI tract were found to have parasites by histology, immunohistochemistry, or PCR. ConclusionsWe concluded that, aside from the heart, the other solid organs of T.cruzi-infected donors can be used for transplantation with a lot of caution. Such organs are not safe in the view of previous reports of CD transmission, but seem to present a low T.cruzi load compared to the heart.
- Hydrophilic-coating material guidewire embolization after complex percutaneous coronary intervention: necroscopic findings(2019) LEMOS, Stefano G. D.; BENVENUTI, Luiz A.; AIELLO, Vera D.; NICOLAU, Jose C.; RIBEIRO, Expedito E.; RIBEIRO, Henrique B.
- Atrioventricular Block Pathology in Cardiomyopathy by Desmin Deposition(2012) BENVENUTI, Luiz Alberto; AIELLO, Vera Dermarchi; FALCAO, Breno Alencar Araripe; LAGE, Silvia GelasGenerally, restrictive cardiomyopathy due to desmin deposition is characterized by restriction to ventricular diastolic filling and different degrees of atrioventricular block (AVB). In this report, we describe the pathological changes of the cardiac conduction system related to AVB. The sinus node, the compact node, and the penetrating bundle (bundle of His) had no abnormalities, however, there was extensive fibrosis of the terminal portions of the branching bundle and the beginning of the left and right bundles at the top of the ventricular septum. The pathogenesis of this fibrous replacement is probably the same that leads to extensive fibrosis of the working ventricular myocardium, and remains to be elucidated.
- Heart Transplantation in Pediatric Population and in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Long-term Follow-up, Critical Clinical Analysis, and Perspective for the Future(2014) AZEKA, E.; JATENE, M.; GALAS, F. R. B.; TANAMATI, C.; PENHA, J.; BENVENUTI, L.; MIURA, N.; JUNIOR, J. O. C.Background. Heart transplantation is a treatment option for children as well as for adults with congenital heart disease. Objective. To report the experience of a tertiary center with heart transplant program in pediatric population and in adults with congenital heart disease. Patients and Methods. The study consisted of the evaluation of pediatric as well as adult patients undergoing heart transplantation for congenital heart disease. We evaluated the following indication and complications such as renal dialysis, graft vascular disease, tumors and survival. Results. From October 1992 to November 2013, 134 patients had transplantation, and there were 139 transplantations and 5 retransplantations. The immunosuppression regimen is based on calcineurin inhibitors and cytostatic drugs. The type of heart disease indicated for transplantation was cardiomyopathies in 70% and congenital heart disease in 30%. Of these 134 patients, 85 patients were alive. Actuarial survival is 77.4%, 69.6%, 59.3% at 1, 5, and 10 years after transplantation. Three patients underwent renal transplantation, 1 patient is in renal dialysis, and 8.2% of patients had post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease. Two patients had retransplantation for graft vascular disease; 1 of them required a simultaneous kidney transplant and died 30 days after the procedure and 1 patient is clinically well 2 years after retransplantation. Conclusion. Heart transplantation in children and in adults with congenital heart disease is a promising therapeutic option and enables long-term survival for these patients.
- Comparative Analysis of the Complications of 5347 Endomyocardial Biopsies Applied to Patients After Heart Transplantation and With Cardiomyopathies: A Single-center Study(2012) FIORELLI, A. I.; BENVENUTI, L.; AIELO, V.; COELHO, A. Q.; PALAZZO, J. F.; ROSSENER, R.; BARRETO, A. C. P.; MADY, C.; BACAL, F.; BOCCHI, E.; STOLF, N. A. G.Introduction. Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) plays an important role in allograft surveillance to screen an acute rejection episode after heart transplantation (HT), to diagnose an unknown cause of cardiomyopathies (CMP) or to reveal a cardiac tumor. However, the procedure is not risk free. Objective. The main objective of this research was to describe our experience with EMB during the last 33 years comparing surgical risk between FIT versus no-HT patients. Method. We analyzed retrospectively the data of 5347 EMBs performed from 1978 to 2011 (33 years). For surveillance of acute rejection episodes after HT we performed 3564 (66.7%), whereas 1777 (33.2%) for CMP diagnosis, and 6 (1.0%) for cardiac tumor identification. Results. The main complications due to EMB were divided into 2 groups to facilitate analysis: major complications associated with potential death risk, and minor complications. The variables that showed a significant difference in the HT group were as follows: tricuspid Injury (.0490) and coronary fistula (.0000). Among the no-HT cohort they were insufficient fragment (.0000), major complications (.0000) and total complications (.0000). Conclusions. EMB can be accomplished with a low risk of complications and high effectiveness to diagnose CMP and rejection after HT. However, the risk is great among patients with CMP due to their anatomic characteristics. Children also constitute a risk group for EMB due to their small size in addition to the heart disease. The risk of injury to the tricuspid valve was higher among the HT group.