INTRODUCTION: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common, preventable and silent in its early stages. Therefore, early detection of this condition in the population at risk, through laboratory tests, is essential. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the CKD prevalence and perform its risk stratification in a tertiary he...
Moreno, Rafael Alexandre Meneguz;
Costa Jr, J. Ribamar;
Gomes, Nisia Lira;
Ramos, Auristela I. O;
Ferreira-Neto, Alfredo N;
Siqueira, Dimytri;
Maldonado, Mercedes;
Meneghelo, Zilda;
Esteves, Cesar A;
Braga, Sérgio;
Sousa, Amanda.
BACKGROUND: Percutaneous balloon mitral commissurotomy (PMBC) is an attractive therapeutic approach in patients with mitral stenosis. The aim of this study was to assess the immediate and long-term clinical, echocardiographic and haemodynamic outcomes of PMBC in patients with severe pulmonary hypertensio...
Castillo, Maria Teresa Cabrera;
Narchi, Milena Davi;
D‘Eva, Flavia Cunacia;
Tanaka, Robert;
Fucci, Adriana;
Carolla, Debora Clotilde;
Murakami, Luisa;
Samaan, Farid;
Ramos, Rui Fernado;
Oliveira, Gustavo Bernardes de Figueiredo;
Timerman, Ari.
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in Western countries, with heart failure being the final pathway of heart disease. Despite this, few patients are referred for Palliative Approach (PA). There is no consensus about the indication or the right time to refer patients ...
Fernandes, Rafael Modesto;
Brito, Carolina Aslan Ribeiro;
Souza, Carolina Costa da Silva;
Souza, Vitor Queiroz de Castro;
Le Bihan, David;
Vilela, Andrea A;
Barretto, Rodrigo B. M;
Santos, Elizabete S;
Sousa, Amanda G. M. R;
Timerman, Ari.
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Brazil and worldwide. In the context of diastolic dysfunction, echocardiography is the best non-invasive diagnostic method. However, the comparison of the two main guidelines for evaluate left ventricular diastolic function in acute coro...
Moreno, Rafael Alexandre Meneguz;
Prota-Filho, Luiz Eugenio B;
Queiroz, Caio C. V;
Wohnrath, Fabricio C;
Carboni, Felipe A. C;
Silva, Gisele R. C;
Castro, Joselyn I. P;
Silva, Wandemberg S;
Ramos, Auristela I. O;
Gomes, Nisia L;
Braga, Sergio L. N;
Costa Jr, J. Ribamar.
BACKGROUND: Percutaneous mitral balloon commissurotomy (PMBC) remains the preferred treatment for patients with severe symptomatic rheumatic mitral stenosis (MS) and suitable anatomy. The objective of this study was to propose a new score for the prediction of immediate and late success. METHODS. This is...
INTRODUCTION: Hypertension (HTN) diagnosis depends on the accuracy and representativeness of blood pressure (BP) obtained by different methods. In pediatric obese patients, office BP can present great variability and does not detect nighttime changes. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) allows re...
BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), frequently related to adverse outcomes. The AF-HCM point-score is a recently validated predictive model for the assessment of AF risk. OBJECTIVES: We sought to independently evaluate the novel AF-HCM score i...
INTRODUCTION: Cardiac amyloidosis is a underdiagnosed cause of heart failure. Hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis can occur in more than 130pathogenic variants with variable clinical presentation depending on the type of mutation. They two main phenotypes are peripheral polyneuropathy and amyloidotic he...
INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular disease has been the leading cause of mortality worldwide since the 1960s, including coronary syndrome and valve disease.Surgical implantation of an aortic valve prosthesis is usually a low-risk procedure,but it can be challenging in selected cases.We describe here a compress...
BACKGROUND: Long COVID is a condition characterized by long-term consequences persisting or appearing after the typical convalescence period of COVID-19. It may last several months but the duration is still matter of observation. The symptoms and the clinical manifestations are clinically heterogeneous i...
