Books By Gaetano Thiene - Author

Gaetano Thiene is Emeritus Full Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the University of Padua, skilled both in Cardiology and Pathology. His research interests include the broad fields of Cardiovascular Medicine and Pathology, with clinicopathologic studies and clinical translation of basic research. The beginning of his career was devoted to Congenital Heart diseases, including valve malformations. He first reported Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy as a major cause of sudden death in the young and in athletes (NEJM 1988) and contributed to the elucidation of its genetic basis (Human Genetics 2004). He is a principal architect of the Italian program, in which all young individuals who want participate in sports activities, should undergo to screening for concealed cardiovascular problems. In addition, he leads a group in Padua that works at the interface between pathology and genetics to identify disease-causing mutations, correlating them with the clinical and pathological phenotypes.