IJCS | Volume 31, Nº6, November / December 2018

SUMARY 558 560 562 569 578 585 594 603 610 619 630 • Editorials Digital Tools and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation................................................................................................................ Ricardo Stein and Leandro Tolfo Franzoni To Occlude or not to Occlude. That is the Question........................................................................................................... Wilson Mathias Junior • Original Articles Option for the Radial versus Femoral Access in Coronary Intervention in Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Risk- Treatment Paradox..................................................................................................................................................................... Yasmin Falcon Lacerda, Nicole Cruz de Sá, Jessica Gonzalez Suerdieck, Letícia Fonseca, Fernanda Lopes, Gabriella Sant’Ana Sodré, Mateus dos Santos Viana, Marcia Maria Noya Rabelo, Luis Claudio Lemos Correia Does Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure Affect Left Atrial Performance?................................................. Marta Madeira, Rogério Teixeira, Liliana Reis, Paulo Dinis, Luís Paiva, Ana Botelho, Marco Costa, Lino Gonçalves Evolutive Study of Rheumatic Carditis Cases Treated with Corticosteroids in a Public Hospital........................... Fernanda Maria Correia Ferreira Lemos, Gesmar Volga Haddad Herdy, Cristina Ortiz Sobrinho Valete, Maria Eulália Thebit Pfeiffer Effect of Mild Aerobic Exercise in Atrial Granules of Mice with Chronic Chagas Disease....................................... Roberto Ferraboli, Elisabete De Marco Ornelas, Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca, Glaucia Luciano da Veiga, Clever Gomes Cardoso, Mara Rubia Marques, Laura Beatriz Mesiano Maifrino Prevalence of Physical Inactivity and its Effects on Blood Pressure and Metabolic Parameters in a Brazilian Urban Population....................................................................................................................................................................... Geiza da Graça Leite Rissardi, José Paulo Cipullo, Gisela Cipullo Moreira, Luiz Alberto Souza Ciorlia, Cláudia Bernardi Cesarino, Luiz Tadeu Giollo Junior, Angelina Zanesco, José Fernando Vilela-Martin Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Three Regions in Venezuela: The VEMSOLS Study.................................... Imperia Brajkovich, Juan P. González–Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Alejandro Rísquez, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez Comparison betweent the Effects of Swimming and Treadmill-Based Aerobic Training Protocols in Diabetic Rats........................................................................................................................................................................ Elizabeth de Orleans Carvalho de Moura, Kelvin Tanaka, Moisés Felipe Pereira Gomes, Evandro Nogueira, Ricardo Gomes, Debora Estadella, Katt Mattos, Patrícia Chakur Brum, Alessandra Medeiros Effects of Conventional and Virtual Reality Cardiovascular Rehabilitation in Body Composition and Functional Capacity of Patients with Heart Diseases: Randomized Clinical Trial...................................................... João Pedro Lucas Neves Silva, Luiz Felipe Marques Novaes, Lorrany Caroline Rocha dos Santos, Bianca Pinhal Galindo, Margaret Assad Cavalcante, Bruna Corral Garcia de Araújo, Francis Lopes Pacagnelli, Ana Paula Coelho Figueira Freire Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricular Function by Two-Dimensional Strain In Patients with Left-Sided Valvular Heart Disease: Comparison with Three-Dimensional Echocardiography................................ Alex dos Santos Felix, Ana Paula dos Reis Velloso Siciliano, Luciano Herman Juacaba Belém, Fabiula Schwartz de Azevedo, Sergio Salles Xavier, Andrea Rocha De Lorenzo, Clerio Francisco de Azevedo Filho