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Portuguese National Registry of Interventional Cardiology

Funding Information: We would like to thank Maria F\u00E1tima Loureiro, who was the biostatistician at the National Center for Data Collection in Cardiology (CNCDC) at the time of the study, for her collaboration in processing the data from the Portuguese National Registry of Interventional Cardiology. Additionally, we extend our gratitude to all healthcare professionals who diligently record data in the regist...

Perceptions of cardiology, professional preferences and impact on career choice...

Introduction and Objectives: Cardiology has not been seen as an attractive specialty, and women have avoided it for many years. Some surveys have been performed in other countries, but in Portugal, the situation is largely unknown. Methods: An online survey on perceptions of cardiology and professional preferences was sent to 1371 members of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, of whom 18.2% completed the surv...

Response to the letter “Cardio-oncology guidelines, structural heart disease an...

Cardiologia de intervenção em doentes oncológicos

The field of Cardio-Oncology has grown significantly, especially during the last decade. While awareness of cardiotoxicity due to cancer disease and/or therapies has greatly increased, much of the attention has focused on myocardial systolic disfunction and heart failure. However, coronary and structural heart disease are also a common issue in cancer patients and encompass the full spectrum of cardiotoxicity. ...

Cardiac allograft vasculopathy

Advantages of a prospective multidisciplinary approach in transcatheter aortic ...

Copyright © 2017 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.; INTRODUCTION: Aortic stenosis is the most prevalent type of valvular disease in Europe. Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) is the standard therapy, while transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an alternative in patients at unacceptably high surgical risk. Assessment by a heart team ...

Effective radiation dose of three diagnostic tests in cardiology

Introduction: Diagnostic tests that use ionizing radiation play a central role in cardiology and their use has grown in recent years, leading to increasing concerns about their potential stochas-tic effects. The aims of this study were to compare the radiation dose of three diagnostic tests: single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), invasive coronary angiography (ICA) and cardiac computed tomography (...

Origem anómala da coronària esquerda

Anomalous origin of coronary arteries represents a clinical challenge not only because of the anatomical variability, but also the possible functional consequences, pathophysiological mechanisms involved and the absence of large series in the literature that would provide evidence for clinical and therapeutic orientation. The authors describe the case of a 55-year-old male patient with a long history of atypica...