IJCS | Volume 31, Nº4, July / August 2018

Exterior Amalia Peix - InstitutodeCardiología yCirugíaCardiovascular, Havana –Cuba Amelia Jiménez-Heffernan - Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez, Huelva – Spain Ana Isabel VenâncioOliveiraGalrinho -Hospital SantaMarta, Lisboa – Portugal Ana Maria Ferreira Neves Abreu - Hospital Santa Marta, Lisboa – Portugal Ana Teresa Timóteo - Hospital Santa Marta, Lisboa – Portugal Charalampos Tsoumpas - University of Leeds, Leeds – England Chetal Patel - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi – Indian Edgardo Escobar - Universidad de Chile, Santiago – Chile EnriqueEstrada-Lobato -InternationalAtomicEnergyAgency,Vienna–Austria ErickAlexanderson -InstitutoNacionaldeCardiología-IgnacioChávez,Ciudad de México – México Fausto Pinto - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa - Portugal Ganesan Karthikeyan - All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi – Indian Guilherme Vianna e Silva - Texas Heart Institute, Texas – USA Horacio José Faella - Hospital de Pediatría S.A.M.I.C. “Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan”, Caba – Argentina James A. Lang - Des Moines University, Des Moines – USA James P. Fisher - University of Birmingham, Birmingham – England João Augusto Costa Lima - Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore – USA Jorge Ferreira - Hospital de Santa Cruz, Carnaxide, Portugal Manuel de Jesus Antunes - Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra, Coimbra – Portugal Marco Alves da Costa - Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra, Coimbra – Portugal Maria João Soares Vidigal Teixeira Ferreira - Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra – Portugal Massimo Francesco Piepoli - Ospedale “Guglielmo da Saliceto”, Piacenza – Italy Nuno Bettencourt - Universidade do Porto, Porto – Portugal Raffaele Giubbini - Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia – Italy Ravi Kashyap - International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna – Austria Roberto José Palma dos Reis - Hospital Polido Valente, Lisboa – Portugal Shekhar H. Deo - University of Missouri, Columbia – USA BIENNIUM BOARD 2018/2019 SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE CARDIOLOGIA/ BRAZILIAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY President Oscar Pereira Dutra Vice-President José Wanderley Neto Scientific Director Dalton Bertolim Précoma Financial Director Denilson Campos de Albuquerque Administrative Director Wolney de Andrade Martins Government Liaison Director José Carlos Quinaglia e Silva Information Technology Director Miguel Antônio Moretti Communication Director Romeu Sergio Meneghelo Research Director Fernando Bacal Assistance Quality Director Evandro Tinoco Mesquita Specialized Departments Director Audes Diógenes de Magalhães Feitosa State and Regional Relations Director Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso de Souza Cardiovascular Health Promotion Director - SBC/Funcor Fernando Augusto Alves da Costa Chief Editor of the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia Carlos Eduardo Rochitte Chief Editor of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences Claudio Tinoco Mesquita PRESIDENTS OF STATE AND REGIONAL BRAZILIAN SOCIETIES OF CARDIOLOGY SBC/AL – Edvaldo Ferreira Xavier Júnior SBC/AM– JoãoMarcos Bemfica Barbosa Ferreira SBC/BA – Emerson Costa Porto SBC/CE – Maria Tereza Sá Leitão Ramos Borges SBC/DF – Ederaldo Brandão Leite SBC/ES – Fatima Cristina Monteiro Pedroti SBC/GO – Gilson Cassem Ramos SBC/MA – Aldryn Nunes Castro SBC/MG – Carlos Eduardo de Souza Miranda SBC/MS – Christiano Henrique Souza Pereira SBC/MT – Roberto Candia SBC/NNE – Maria Alayde Mendonca da Silva SBC/PA – Moacyr Magno Palmeira SBC/PB – Fátima Elizabeth Fonseca de Oliveira Negri SBC/PE – Audes Diógenes de Magalhães Feitosa SBC/PI – Luiza Magna de Sá Cardoso Jung Batista SBC/PR – João Vicente Vitola SBC/RN – Sebastião Vieira de Freitas Filho SBC/SC – Wálmore Pereira de Siqueira Junior SBC/SE – Sheyla Cristina Tonheiro Ferro da Silva SBC/TO – Wallace André Pedro da Silva SOCERGS – Daniel Souto Silveira SOCERJ – Andréa Araujo Brandão SOCERON – Fernanda Dettmann SOCESP – José Francisco Kerr Saraiva PRESIDENTSOFDEPARTAMENTSAND STUDYGROUPS SBC/DA – Maria Cristina de Oliveira Izar SBC/DCC – João Luiz Fernandes Petriz SBC/DCC/CP – Andressa Mussi Soares SBC/DCM – Marildes Luiza de Castro SBC/DECAGE – Elizabeth da Rosa Duarte SBC/DEIC – Salvador Rassi SBC/DERC – Tales de Carvalho SBC/DFCVR – Antoinette Oliveira Blackman SBC/DHA – Rui Manuel dos Santos Povoa SBC/DIC – Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira SBCCV – Rui Manuel de Sousa S. Antunes de Almeida SOBRAC – Jose Carlos Moura Jorge SBHCI – Viviana de Mello Guzzo Lemke DCC/GAPO – Pedro Silvio Farsky DERC/GECESP – Antonio Carlos Avanza Jr DERC/GECN – Rafael Willain Lopes DERC/GERCPM – Mauricio Milani DCC/GECETI – Luiz Bezerra Neto DCC/GECO – Roberto Kalil Filho DEIC/GEICPED – Estela Azeka DCC/GEMCA – Roberto Esporcatte DEIC/GEMIC – Fabio Fernandes DCC/GERTC – Juliano de Lara Fernandes DEIC/GETAC – Silvia Moreira Ayub Ferreira