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President’s Message
Sousa Uva, Miguel
Infective Endocarditis: A Prospective Registry Of Surgical Lesions
Ranchordás, Sara; Madeira, Márcio; Oliveira, Paulo; Marques, Marta; Abecasis, Miguel; Andrade, Maria João; Sousa Uva, Miguel; Neves, José PedroIntroduction: Infective endocarditis morbidity and mortality remains high. Surgery is performed in about half of endocarditis cases, being the ideal setting to evaluate endocarditis lesions. The aim of this study was to register and describe endocarditis lesions found during surgery; find predictors of morbidity and mortality and correlate lesions found in echocardiogram vs. surgery. Materials and Methods: One ...
VICE-PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Sousa Uva, Miguel.
Latin European Alliance of Cardiovascular Surgical Societies (LEACSS) – Towards...
Sousa Uva, Miguel
2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation dev...
Hindricks, Gerhard; Potpara, Tatjana; Dagres, Nikolaos; Arbelo, Elena; Bax, Jeroen J.; Blomström-Lundqvist, Carina; Boriani, Giuseppe; Castella, ManuelAtrial fibrillation (AF) poses significant burden to patients, physicians, and healthcare systems globally. Substantial research efforts and resources are being directed towards gaining detailed information about the mechanisms underlying AF, its natural course and effective treatments (see also the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine: CardioMed) and new evidence is continuously generated and published. The...
Establishment of heart teams in Portugal
Sousa Uva, Miguel; Leite-Moreira, Adelino F.; Gavina, Cristina; Pereira, Helder; Lopes, Mario G.Whenever several therapeutic options exist, multidisciplinary decision-making is beneficial for the patient and for society at large. The main obstacles to the establishment of heart teams in Portugal are organizational and logistical. Implementing a heart team approach entails definition of the situations requiring multidisciplinary discussion, creation of clear lines of communication, written protocols and ob...