Morphology and cardiovascular pathology are an important area of clinical and surgical activity in pets and among all in dogs. The research activity is based on the planning of a method that includes a preliminary morphological study followed by the assessment of clinical-pathological correlations and comparative aspects with human pathology . This method is currently applied to the most important cardiovascular diseases of pets, such as feline hypertrophic myocardiopathy and myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve in dogs,for which the main receptors at the level of the interstitial cells of the mitral valve are being studied with particular attention to an approach not only morphological and pathological but also pharmacological.

• Ricerca Locale, Università degli Studi di Torino

• Oricco S., Perego M., Poggi M., Tursi M., Biasato I., Santilli RA. - Aortic dissection in four cats: clinicopathological correlations - J Vet Cardiol. 2019;25:52-60
• Tursi M., Poser H., Janus I., Guglielmini C. - Pathology in Practice - J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2018;253(12):1551-1553
• Tursi M, Mazzotta E, Biasato I, Poser H, Guglielmini C. - Pathology in Practice - J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2016;248(12):1359-136
• Santilli RA., Battaia S., Perego M.,Tursi M., Marzufero C., Gianella P. et al. - Bartonella-associated inflammatory cardiomyopathy in a dog - J Vet Cardiol. 2017;19(1):74-8
• Biasato I., Tursi M., Zanet S., Longato E., Capucchio MT. - Pulmonary artery dissection causing haemothorax in a cat: potential role of Dirofilaria immitis infection and literature review - J Vet Cardiol. 2017;19(1):82-87
• Janus, I., Kandefer-Gola, M., Ciaputa, R., Noszczyk-Nowak, A., Paslawska, U., Tursi, M., & Nowak, M. - Cardiomyocyte marker expression in dogs with left atrial enlargement due to dilated cardiomyopathy or myxomatous mitral valve diseas -  Folia histochemica et cytobiologica. 2017; 55(2), 52–61
• Baron Toaldo M., Romito G., Cipone M., Diana A., Tursi M. - Electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and left atrial strain imaging features of a dog with atrial flutter and third-degree atrioventricular block - J Vet Cardiol. 2017;19(5):462-468
• Biasato I., Francescone L., La Rosa G., Tursi M. - Anatomopathological staging of feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy through quantitative evaluation based on morphometric and histopathological data - Res Vet Sci. 2015;102:136-141.
• Borgarelli M., Tursi M., La Rosa G., Savarino P., Galloni M. - Anatomic, histologic, and two-dimensional-echocardiographic evaluation of mitral valve anatomy in dogs - Am J Vet Res. 2011;72(9):1186-1192
• Quintavalla C., Bossolini E., Rubini G., Tursi M. - Uhl's anomaly in a domestic shorthair cat - J Am Anim Hosp Assoc. 2010;46(6):444-448

• Dr. Claudio Bussadori, Clinica Veterinaria Gran Sasso, Milano
• Dr. Oriol Domenech, Istituto Veterinario di Novara
• Dr. Iolanda Navalòn, Cardiology Department, Ars Veterinaria, Barcellona, Spain
• Dr. Angela Pucci, Anatomia Patologica e Diagnostica Molecolare ed Ultrastrutturale, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana