ABC | Volume 111, Nº2, August 2018

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - Volume 111, Nº 2, August 2018 Original Article Satisfaction of Emergency Physicians with the Care Provided to Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases in the Northern Region of Minas Gerais Milena Soriano Marcolino, João Antonio de Queiroz Oliveira, Grace Kelly Matos e Silva, Thatiane Dantas Dias, Barbara Campos Abreu Marino, André Pires Antunes, Antonio Luiz Ribeiro, Clareci Silva Cardoso .....................................................................................................................................................................page 151 Short Editorial Are We Taking Good Care of Our Patients and Physicians? Gilson Soares Feitosa .....................................................................................................................................................................page 160 Original Article Pioglitazone Induces Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis and Inhibits Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Via VEGFR-2 Signaling Pathway Wenliang Zhong, Wen Jin, Shanghua Xu, Yanqing Wu, Shunxiang Luo, Minlie Liang, Lianglong Chen .....................................................................................................................................................................page 162 Short Editorial VEGFR-2: One of Pioglitazone’s Signaling Pathways in the Heart Marcos Ferreira Minicucci and Leonardo Antonio Mamede Zornoff .....................................................................................................................................................................page 170 Original Article Physical Exercise and Regulation of Intracellular Calcium in Cardiomyocytes of Hypertensive Rats Joel Alves Rodrigues, Thales Nicolau Prímola-Gomes, Leôncio Lopes Soares, Tiago Ferreira Leal, Clara Nóbrega, Danillo Laviola Pedrosa, Leonardo Mateus Teixeira Rezende, Edilamar Menezes de Oliveira, Antonio Jose Natali .....................................................................................................................................................................page 172 Short Editorial Hypertension and Exercise: A Search for Mechanisms Bertha F. Polegato and Sergio A. R. de Paiva .....................................................................................................................................................................page 180 Original Article Sympathetic Dysautonomia in Heart Failure by 123 I-MIBG: comparison between Chagasic, non- Chagasic and heart transplant patients Viviane Santuari Parisotto Marino, Sandra Monetti Dumont, Luciene das Graças Mota, Daniela de Souza Braga, Stephanie Saliba de Freitas, Maria da Consolação Vieira Moreira .....................................................................................................................................................................page 182 Short Editorial Cardiac Sympathetic Activity and the Neuro-Humoral Theory on Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Have We Learned Enough? Thiago Quinaglia A. C. Silva and Otávio R. Coelho-Filho .....................................................................................................................................................................page 191