{"title":"Revisiting a Timeless Skill: The Physical Examination in the Age of Technology-Driven Medicine.","authors":"Sofia Cabral","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250124","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20250124","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12094291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roberto Dischinger Miranda, Bruna de Oliveira Laurindo, Maria Eduarda Augusto Licco
{"title":"Technologies for Better Blood Pressure Control: Do the Applications Offer the Necessary Quality?","authors":"Roberto Dischinger Miranda, Bruna de Oliveira Laurindo, Maria Eduarda Augusto Licco","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250085","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20250085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250085"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12094289/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144065342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spirituality and Cardiovascular Disease: Valuing Cultural Sensitivity in Cardiology.","authors":"Giancarlo Lucchetti","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20250143","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040385/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144060558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival with ICD in Heart Failure: Truly Necessary or Just a Selection Bias?","authors":"Fernanda Almeida Andrade","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20250142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040388/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144048609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rodrigo Guimarães Vieira de Carvalho, Gustavo Augusto Ferreira Mota, Milene Vitória Sampaio Sobral, Ana Paula Coelho Figueira Freire, Francis Lopes Pacagnelli
{"title":"Cardiac Response to Stress: Influence of Vortioxetine.","authors":"Rodrigo Guimarães Vieira de Carvalho, Gustavo Augusto Ferreira Mota, Milene Vitória Sampaio Sobral, Ana Paula Coelho Figueira Freire, Francis Lopes Pacagnelli","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20250105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040386/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dalton Bertolim Precoma, Rafael Paletta da Silva, Luiz Carlos Santana Passos, Conrado Roberto Hoffman Filho, Fábio Serra Silveira, José Tarcísio Medeiros de Vasconcelos, Sérgio Luiz Zimmermann, Artur Haddad Herdy, Alessandra Ritter, Daniely Freitas-Alves, José Francisco Kerr Saraiva
{"title":"Effectiveness and Safety of Edoxaban in the Routine Clinical Care of Atrial Fibrillation Patients in Brazil: Prospective 1-Year Follow-Up Study - EdoBRA.","authors":"Dalton Bertolim Precoma, Rafael Paletta da Silva, Luiz Carlos Santana Passos, Conrado Roberto Hoffman Filho, Fábio Serra Silveira, José Tarcísio Medeiros de Vasconcelos, Sérgio Luiz Zimmermann, Artur Haddad Herdy, Alessandra Ritter, Daniely Freitas-Alves, José Francisco Kerr Saraiva","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240589","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240589","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Edoxaban, an orally administered anticoagulant, has been shown to be safe and effective in preventing stroke in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients. Given its widespread use since approval, evaluating edoxaban's real-world performance in the Brazilian clinical context is crucial.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study aimed to report the one-year safety and effectiveness of edoxaban in AF patients in Brazil.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>EdoBRA is a multi-center, prospective, observational investigation conducted across 30 Brazilian research sites. Bleeding events were considered as safety measures and cardiovascular events were considered for effectiveness measures. Descriptive analyses were performed. Kaplan-Meier curves were generated for time-to-event analysis and a 95% confidence interval was used as appropriate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the 705 enrolled participants, 590 were included in the analysis for having at least one follow-up or one reported event. Mean (±SD) CHA2DS2-VASc risk score was 3 (3.3 ± 1.6) and the mean HAS-BLED risk score was 2 (1.8 ± 1.2). During the one-year follow-up period, nine major bleedings events were reported, including five cases of gastrointestinal bleeding (IP 0.85 [95% CI =0.82; 0.88]). Among the cardiovascular events recorded (N = 68), there were four stroke events (IP 0.68 [CI 95% 0.65;0.71]), one transient ischemic attack (IP 0.17 [CI 95% (0.16;0.18]) and 1 event was Venous Thromboembolic Events (IP 0.17 [CI 95% (0.16;0.18]). No systemic embolic event was exhibited by any patient.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In an elderly population with several comorbidities routinely treated with edoxaban for AF, the rates of cardiovascular event and major bleeding were low.</p>","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 4","pages":"e20240589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12058141/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144059662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Datasus: An Essential Tool for Public Health in Brazil.","authors":"Marcia Koike","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20250123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12040387/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
José Carlos Pachon-M, Enrique I Pachon-M, Tasso J Lobo, Tomas G Santillana-P, Carlos Thiene C Pachon
{"title":"High-Power Short Duration or Pulsed Field Ablation: What is the Best Choice for AF Ablation?","authors":"José Carlos Pachon-M, Enrique I Pachon-M, Tasso J Lobo, Tomas G Santillana-P, Carlos Thiene C Pachon","doi":"10.36660/abc.20250057","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20250057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20250057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12129479/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros E Silva, Valter Furlan, Renato D Lopes, André Volschan, Paulo Cesar Pereira de Souza, Carisi Anne Polanczyk
{"title":"Value-Based Healthcare in Cardiology: How to Integrate a more Comprehensive View into Medical Decision-Making?","authors":"Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros E Silva, Valter Furlan, Renato D Lopes, André Volschan, Paulo Cesar Pereira de Souza, Carisi Anne Polanczyk","doi":"10.36660/abc.20240668","DOIUrl":"10.36660/abc.20240668","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Value-based healthcare is a patient-centered concept that provides a broad view of all parties involved in the care process. This model is designed to achieve the best possible patient outcomes while maintaining cost sustainability. In its classic description, value-based care is the relationship between outcomes that matter to the patient and the costs required to achieve them. Later, other variables were considered in this equation, such as appropriateness and user experience, to make this model more replicable. With a view that aligns the interests of patients, physicians, and payers, value-based healthcare has great potential to improve medical practice sustainably. After more than a decade of discussions and publications, putting this concept into practice is still challenging and dynamic. Value-based healthcare has gained importance and should become a transformative model for health ecosystems. Medical compensation aligned with these principles appears to be a promising path toward such transformation. Nevertheless, the application of this concept depends on a more straightforward definition of the health value parameters in different clinical scenarios. Cardiology is a specialty that usually has a solid evidence base for medical decision-making and this generates great potential for the application of health value elements. In this article, the authors outline a review of the main concepts of value-based healthcare and its potential applications in cardiology.</p>","PeriodicalId":93887,"journal":{"name":"Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia","volume":"122 2","pages":"e20240668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12058157/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143804969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}