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Mr Antonio Ravaglioli

Mr Ravaglioli is a consultant specialising in paediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery.

Training and education

  • Medical degree, Univeristà degli Studi di Siena, Italy, 2008.
  • Specialist in cardiac surgery, Univeristà degli Studi di Siena, 2014
  • Pulmonary endarterectomy surgical fellowship, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, 2013 to 2014.
  • Heart and lung transplant surgical fellowship, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, 2014 to 2015.
  • Paediatric and adult cardiothoracic surgical fellowship, University Hospital Southampton, 2015 to 2019.
  • Paediatric and adult congenital consultant cardiac surgeon, Ospedale del Cuore, FTGM, Massa, Italy, 2019 to 2021

Experience

Mr Ravaglioli completed his medical and surgical training in Italy before moving in the UK. He spent two years at Papworth as a surgical fellow to improve my experience in transplant and mechanical circulatory support (ECMO and VAD), joining UHS in 2015 as a cardiothoracic fellow with special interest in congenital cardiac surgery. In 2019 he returned to Italy as a locum consultant congenital surgeon at Ospedale del Cuore in Italy, but rejoined UHS as a consultant surgeon in February 2021.

His areas of interest include neonatal and valve surgery.

Publications

  • Pulmonary endarterectomy is effective and safe in patients with hemoglobinopathies and abnormal red blood cells: the Papworth experience. Balakrishnan Mahesh, Martin Besser, Antonio Ravaglioli, Joanna Pepke-Zaba, Guillermo Martinez, Andrew Klein, Choo Ng, Steven Tsui, John Dunning, David P. Jenkins. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2016) Sept; 50(3):537-541
  • Hybrid strategies for high-risk non-hypoplastic left heart syndrome patients. Syed Moby Rehman, Antonio Ravaglioli, Kanchana Singappuli, Kevin Roman, James Gnanapragasam, Duminda Samarasinghe, Nicola Viola. J Card Surg (2018) Jul;33(7):399-401
  • Retrieval team-initiated early donor management increases the donor heart utilization rate for transplantation. Cristina Barbero, Antonio Ravaglioli, Aravinda Page, Graham Betts, Stephen Fakelman, Evgeny Pavlushkov, Simon Messer, Barbora Parizkova, Marius Berman, Steven Tsui. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2019) Mar 1;55(3):468-475
  • The different surgical impact of the superior cavoatrial incision in children and adults. Lamia Ait Ali, Antonio Ravaglioli,Pierluigi Festa, Alessandro Tamburrini, Chiara Marrone, Magdalena Cuman, Cecilia Farnetani, Vitali Pak, Mario Chiavarelli, Duccio Federici . Cardiol Young (2020) 15:1-5
  • Pitfalls in surgical repair of Fallot’s tetralogy: the “ventricular subaortic pouch”. Duccio Federici, Lamia Ait-Ali, Antonio Ravaglioli, Pierluigi Festa Dante Chiappino, Vitali Pak, Alberto Clemente. J Card Surg (2021) Jun; 36(6):2164-2167
  • The impact of native Fallot anatomy on future therapeutic requirements and outcomes at follow-up. Antonio Ravaglioli, Lamia Ait Ali, Duccio Federici, Stefano Salvadori, Arketa Pllumi, Vitali Pak, Chiara Marrone, Alessandra Pizzuto, Philipp Bonhoeffer, Pierluigi Festa. Cardiovascular ultrasound (2021) Jun 19;19(1):23
  • Neo-aortic posterior sinus of Valsalva reduction and closed coronary artery transfer as a method to approach aorto-pulmonary mismatch in transposition of great arteries. Luigi Arcieri, A Brambilla, Antonio Ravaglioli, Cecilia Viacava, Duccio Federici, Vincenzo Poli, Vitali Pak, Bruno Murzi. J Card Surg (2021)

Contact

You can contact Mr Ravaglioli vis his secretary on 023 8120 5911.