Francesca Cortese

Francesca Cortese was graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bari in 27/10/2009 with
maximum votes, praise and academic acclaim, with a thesis entitled. “Interventional therapy in diabetic foot:
risk factors, clinical events and prognosis at one year follow-up (a study of 103 cases).”
She took the specialization in cardiology at the University of Bari in 01/10/2015 with maximum votes. Now
she is attending the doctorates at University of Bari.
Expert in echo color Doppler ultrasound, transthoracic, transesophageal echocardiography (mono-bi
dimensional and 3D) and intracardiac one.
Specific skills: echocardiographic assessment of heart transplant recipients, patients with left ventricular
assist devices (left ventricular assist device- LVAD), congenital heart disease in children and in adults, acute
and chronic ischemic heart disease, cardiac resynchronization therapy, cardiomyopathies (hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy, the arrhythmogenic one, dilated cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy) heart valve
diseases.
Active in clinical research in the field of cardiac and vascular ultrasound and endothelial function using the
technique FMD (flow mediated dilation).
Author of several international scientific manuscripts. Reviewer for several international journals.