Marco Diena

Biography

Dr. Marco Diena is the Head of the Department of Transcatheter and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at the Policlinico San Donato Clinical Research Institute in Milan.

He graduated with honors from the University of Turin in 1985 with a thesis on “Heterotopic Heart Transplant”, the experience of which he gained in Nice from the Professor Vincent Dor. The following year, he won a fellowship at the Policlinico San Matteo Clinical Institute in Pavia, which is the first organ transplant center in Italy. In 1988, he received his first experience at the Policlinico San Donato Clinical Institute, where he operated on adults and children as an assistant, under the guidance of doctors Alessandro Frigiola and Lorenzo Menicanti. Dr. Marco Diena is one of the leading surgeons of the Bambini Cardiopatici nel Mondo Association. In 1995, at the age of 35, he became the youngest chief cardiac surgeon in Italy in Turin. In 2001, he performed the first heart surgeries with the Da Vinci robot and became the first Italian to teach robotic surgery in the Master’s program for urologists and general surgeons. From 2002 to August 2019, he served as the Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the San Gaudenzio Clinic in Novara. He is a consultant cardiac surgeon at the Cardiothoracic Center of Monaco.

He has performed more than 13,000 heart and great vessel operations, both in Italy and abroad, specializing in endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery, on which he made 12 presentations at the main international symposium on mitral valve surgery Mitral Conclave from 2011 to 2019. He taught specialized courses on mitral and aortic valve plastics with live broadcast of operations at the EuroEcho and EuroCardiology conferences in Vienna, Rome, Warsaw, Bucharest and Timisoara.

In 2017, he published his first book “Il cuore oltre il confine”, the proceeds of which went to finance the activities of the Cardioteam Foundation Onlus, which he heads, founded in 2008 to carry out prevention, education and research in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

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Education

University of Turin
Degree in Medicine and Surgery - 1985

University of Milan
Specialization in General Surgery - 1991

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Publications

In 2017, he published his first book “Il cuore oltre il confine”, the proceeds of which went to finance the activities of the Cardioteam Foundation Onlus, which he heads, founded in 2008 to carry out prevention, education and research in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

Latest publications

Towards 100% Repair Rate In Mitral Valve Surgery Through Sternotomy Or Minithoracotomy As Individualized Approach: A Single Center Experience
Cardioteam Foundation. San Gaudenzio Clinic., Novara, Italy
Marco Diena, Attilio Cotroneo, Gheorghe Cerin Cardioteam Foundation. San Gaudenzio Clinic., Novara, Italy
From Sternotomy to Simplified Minithoracotomy for Mitral Valve Repair
Cardioteam Foundation. San Gaudenzio Clinic., Novara, Italy
Marco Diena
A new approach for severe aortic regurgitation in porcelain aorta with sutureless Perceval valve: A case report.
Int J Surg Case Rep. 2019;59:124-127. doi: 10.1016/j.ijscr.2019.04.044. Epub 2019 May 13. PMID: 31132610
Martinelli GL, Cotroneo A, Stelian E, Benea D, Diena M.
Early and Mid-Term Results of Rapid Deployment Valves: The Intuity Italian Registry (INTU-ITA).
Ann Thorac Surg. 2018 Dec;106(6):1742-1749. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.07.002. Epub 2018 Jul 25. PMID: 30055145
D'Onofrio A, Tessari C, Filippini C, Bagozzi L, Diena M, Alamanni F, Massetti M, Livi U, Di Eusanio M, Mignosa C, Russo C, Rinaldi M, Di Bartolomeo R, Salvador L, Antona C, Maselli D, De Paulis R, Luzi G, Alfieri O, De Filippo CM, Portoghese M, Musumeci F, Bortolotti U, Gerosa G.
Safe Reentry for False Aneurysm Operations in High-Risk Patients.
Ann Thorac Surg. 2017 Jun;103(6):1907-1913. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.09.028. Epub 2016 Dec 1. PMID: 27916243
Martinelli GL, Cotroneo A, Caimmi PP, Musica G, Barillà D, Stelian E, Romano A, Novelli E, Renzi L, Diena M.
Correction: Human Cardiac Progenitor Spheroids Exhibit Enhanced Engraftment Potential.
PLoS One. 2015 Oct 23;10(10):e0141632. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141632. eCollection 2015. No abstract available. PMID: 26495969
Oltolina F, Zamperone A, Colangelo D, Gregoletto L, Reano S, Pietronave S, Merlin S, Talmon M, Novelli E, Diena M, Nicoletti C, Musarò A, Filigheddu N, Follenzi A, Prat M.
Atypical abnormal pulmonary vein drainage with atrial septal defect: surgical treatment.
Echocardiography. 2015 Jun;32(6):1040-3. doi: 10.1111/echo.12863. Epub 2015 Jan 21. PMID: 25604753
Szychta W, Cerin G, Popa BA, Felice A, Lanzillo G, Diena M, Opolski G.
Monophasic and biphasic electrical stimulation induces a precardiac differentiation in progenitor cells isolated from human heart.
Stem Cells Dev. 2014 Apr 15;23(8):888-98. doi: 10.1089/scd.2013.0375. Epub 2014 Jan 24. PMID: 24328510
Pietronave S, Zamperone A, Oltolina F, Colangelo D, Follenzi A, Novelli E, Diena M, Pavesi A, Consolo F, Fiore GB, Soncini M, Prat M.
Relationship between left atrial volume and atrial fibrillation following coronary artery bypass grafting.
J Card Surg. 2012 Jan;27(1):128-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01373.x. PMID: 22321120
Nardi F, Diena M, Caimmi PP, Iraghi G, Lazzero M, Cerin G, Rossi L, Bongo AS, Cernigliaro C, Lupi A. J Card Surg. 2012 Jan;27(1):128-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01373.x.
Myocardial systolic velocities and deformation assessed by speckle tracking for early detection of left ventricular dysfunction in asymptomatic patients with severe primary mitral regurgitation.
Echocardiography. 2012 Mar;29(3):326-33. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01563.x. Epub 2011 Nov 8. PMID: 22066959
Florescu M, Benea DC, Rimbas RC, Cerin G, Diena M, Lanzzillo G, Enescu OA, Cinteza M, Vinereanu D.
Mitral insufficiency due to an isolated anterior-leaflet cleft: correction with an autologous pericardial patch supported by artificial chordae.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2011;38(3):243-5. PMID: 21720461
Zamfir LE, Diena M, Cerin G, Hakimpour M, Benea DC, Tesler UF.
Evolution of surgical techniques for mitral valve repair.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2009;36(5):438-40. PMID: 19876422
Tesler UF, Cerin G, Novelli E, Popa A, Diena M.
Aorto-pulmonary fistula as a late complication of multiple valve replacement after Streptococcus Bovis endocarditis in a patient with occult colon carcinoma.
J Clin Ultrasound. 2009 Jul-Aug;37(6):369-73. doi: 10.1002/jcu.20562. PMID: 19253356
Florescu M, Benea DC, Cerin G, Lanzillo G, Diena M, Cernigliaro C, Cinteza M, Vinereanu D.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy as an adjunct to conventional surgical treatment for heart failure.
Tex Heart Inst J. 2008;35(3):289-95. PMID: 18941640
Tesler UF, Lanzillo G, Novelli E, Cerin G, Diena M.
The efficacy and safety of extending the ischemic time with a modified cardioplegic technique for coronary artery surgery.
J Card Surg. 2008 Sep-Oct;23(5):444-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2008.00647.x. PMID: 18928483
Casalino S, Tesler UF, Novelli E, Stelian E, Renzi L, Alessi C, Lanzillo G, Cerin G, Diena M.
Aortic valve replacement on two octogenarians awake patients without tracheal intubation, with thoracic epidural anesthesia.
G Ital Cardiol (Rome). 2006 Sep;7(9):646-50. Italian. PMID: 17128789
Casalino S, Lanzillo G, Mangia F, Stelian E, Sozio C, Cerin G, Tesler UF, Diena M.
Can EuroSCORE predict direct costs of cardiac surgery?
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2003 Apr;23(4):595-8. PMID: 12694782
Pinna Pintor P, Bobbio M, Colangelo S, Veglia F, Marras R, Diena M.

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