Dia: 14 de maio de 2009

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Um dos 5 artigos mais lidos do Circulation:
Inflammation and Atherosclerosis
Peter Libby, MD; Paul M. Ridker, MD; Attilio Maseri, MD
Circulation. 2002;105:1135
From the Leducq Center for Cardiovascular Research (P.L., P.M.R.) and Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (P.M.R.), Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, and Department of Cardiovascular Disease (A.M.), University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
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O artigo mais citado da história do Circulation:
Recommendations regarding quantitation in M-mode echocardiography: results of a survey of echocardiographic measurements
DJ Sahn, A DeMaria, J Kisslo, A Weyman Circulation Dec 01, 1978; 58: 1072-1083
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O ecocardiograma anda meio em baixa nos congressos e publicações.
Só se fala em RM e Tomo.
Mas veja que o artigo mais citado da história é de ecocardiografia.
Quem pensa que estamos em decadência pode se surprender…

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Cardiac Dysfunction Assessed by Echocardiographic Tissue
Doppler Imaging Is an Independent Predictor of Mortality
in the General Population
Rasmus Mogelvang, MD, PhD; Peter Sogaard, MD, DMSc; Sune A. Pedersen, MD;
Niels T. Olsen, MD; Jacob L. Marott, MSc; Peter Schnohr, MD, DMSc;
Jens P. Goetze, MD, DMSc; Jan S. Jensen, MD, PhD, DMSc
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Conclusions—In the general population, in which most are free of left ventricular systolic dysfunction and restrictive
diastolic filling using conventional echocardiographic parameters, left ventricular dysfunction by TDI is a powerful and
independent predictor of death, especially when systolic performance and diastolic performance are considered together,
recognizing their interdependency and their complex relation to deteriorating cardiac function. (Circulation. 2009;119)