ABC | Volume 114, Nº2, February 2020

Update Update of the Brazilian Guideline on Nuclear Cardiology – 2020 Development: The Area of Nuclear Cardiology of the Department of Exercise Testing, Sports Exercise, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (DERC) and of the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging (DIC) of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) and the Brazilian Nuclear Medicine Society (SBMN) Norms and Guidelines Council (2018-2019): Fernando Bacal, Leandro Ioschpe Zimerman, Paulo Ricardo Avancini Caramori, and Pedro A. Lemos Norms and Guidelines Coordinator (2018-2019): Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar Editorial Council: Luiz Eduardo Mastrocola, Barbara Juarez Amorim, João Vicente Vitola, Simone Cristina Soares Brandão, Gabriel Blacher Grossman, Ronaldo de Souza Leão Lima, Rafael Willain Lopes, William Azem Chalela, Lara Cristiane Terra Ferreira Carreira, José Roberto Nolasco de Araújo, Cláudio Tinoco Mesquita, José Claudio Meneghetti Special Acknowledgment: Juliano Cerci, 1 Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira 2 e Tales de Carvalho 3 SBMN President, 1 2019-2020 Biennium DIC President, 2 2018-2019 Biennium DERC President, 3 2018-2019 Biennium Update Authors: Luiz Eduardo Mastrocola, 1 B arbara Juarez Amorim, 2,3 João Vicente Vitola, 4 Simone Cristina Soares Brandão, 5 Gabriel Blacher Grossman, 6,7 Ronaldo de Souza Leão Lima, 8,9,10 Rafael Willain Lopes, 1 William Azem Chalela, 11 Lara Cristiane Terra Ferreira Carreira, 12 José Roberto Nolasco de Araújo, 13 Cláudio Tinoco Mesquita, 14 José Claudio Meneghetti 11 Hospital do Coração (HCor), 1 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), 2 Campinas, SP – Brazil Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Nuclear (SBMN), 3 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Quanta Diagnóstico e Terapia, 4 Curitiba, PR – Brazil Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 5 Recife, PE – Brazil Hospital Moinhos de Vento, 6 Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil Clínica Cardionuclear, 7 Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 8 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil Fonte Imagem Medicina Diagnóstica, 9 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil Clínica de Diagnóstico por Imagem (CDPI), Grupo DASA, 10 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil Instituto do Coração (Incor) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP), 11 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Cardiologia Nuclear de Curitiba (CNC), 12 Curitiba, PR – Brazil Diagnose – Centro de Diagnóstico por Imagem, 13 Maceió, AL – Brazil Universidade federal Fluminense (UFF), 14 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil How to cite this guideline: Mastrocola LE, Amorim BJ, Vitola JV, Brandão SCS, Grossman GB, Lima RSL et al. Update of the Brazilian Guideline on Nuclear Cardiology – 2020. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2020; 114(2):325-429 Note: This guideline is for information purposes and should not replace the clinical judgment of a physician, who must ultimately determine the appropriate treatment for each patient. Correspondence: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia – Av. Marechal Câmara, 360/330 – Centro – Rio de Janeiro – Postal Code: 20020-907. E-mail: diretrizes@cardiol.br DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20200087 325