ABC | Volume 111, Nº2, August 2018

Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia • ISSN-0066-782X • Volume 111, Nº 2, August 2018 Editorial Microcirculation and Cardiovascular Diseases Original Article Cryptogenic Acute Ischemic Stroke: Assessment of the Performance of a New Continuous Long-Term Monitoring System in the Detection of Atrial Fibrillation Short Editorial Atrial Fibrillation and Cryptogenic Thromboembolic Events Original Article Persistent Inflammatory Activity in Blood Cells and Artery Tissue from Patients with Previous Bare Metal Stent Short Editorial Persistent Inflammatory Activity in Blood Cells and Artery Tissue from Patients with Previous Bare Metal Stent Original Article Prognostic Impact of Iron Metabolism Changes in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Original Article Satisfaction of Emergency Physicians with the Care Provided to Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases in the Northern Region of Minas Gerais Short Editorial Are We Taking Good Care of Our Patients and Physicians? Original Article Pioglitazone Induces Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis and Inhibits Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy Via VEGFR-2 Signaling Pathway Short Editorial VEGFR-2: One of Pioglitazone’s Signaling Pathways in the Heart Original Article Physical Exercise and Regulation of Intracellular Calcium in Cardiomyocytes of Hypertensive Rats Short Editorial Hypertension and Exercise: A Search for Mechanisms Original Article Sympathetic Dysautonomia in Heart Failure by 123 I-MIBG: comparison between Chagasic, non-Chagasic and heart transplant patients Short Editorial Cardiac Sympathetic Activity and the Neuro-Humoral Theory on Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction: Have We Learned Enough? Original Article The Role of Quantitative Aortographic Assessment of Aortic Regurgitation by Videodensitometry in the Guidance of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Short Editorial New Method Improves the Assessment of Aortic Regurgitation Grade during TAVR by Aortography Review Article Antiplatelet Therapy in Breast Cancer Patients Using Hormonal Therapy: Myths, Evidence and Potentialities – Systematic Review Viewpoint Downstream Change of the Primary Endpoint in the ISCHEMIA Trial: the Elephant in the Room Clinicoradiological Correlation Case 4 – A 59-Year-Old Woman with Rheumatic Mitral Valve Disease (Severe Stenosis and Regurgitation), Severe Dyspnea, Shock and Pulmonary Condensation Case Report Transcatheter Closure of a Traumatic VSD with an ASD Occluder Image Unexpected Mass in the Left Atrium Viewpoint The Need for Sex Hormone Analysis in Addition to Long-Term Follow- Up of Phytosterol Supplementation Figure 2 – Videodensitometric assessment of aortic regurgitation. A) Delineation of the aortic root (reference region: red area in the aortography) and the subaortic one third of LV (ROI: yellow area in the aortography) are shown by the analyser. The time-density curves are provided for both ROI (yellow) and reference (red) regions, and the AUC is automatically computed by the software time-density integrals. VD-AR corresponds to the relativeAUC, which is automatically calculated as the ratio of the relative AUC in the ROI (yellow) to that in the reference area (red). Theoretically, the value of VD-AR ranges from 0 to 1. B) An example of VD-AR measurement before BPD. C) An example of VD-AR measurement after BPD. Reproduce and adopted fromTateishi et al. EuroIntervention 2016 14 Page 195