www.arquivosonline.com.br Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia • ISSN-0066-782X • Volume 104, Nº 1, January 2015 Figure 1 – A) Transthoracic echocardiogram, parasternal longitudinal view, showing the diverticulum in the interventricular septum (arrow) adjacent to the right coronary cusp of aortic valve; B) apical five-chamber view showing the aortic regurgitant jet and apparent structural communication with the LV cavity (Doppler flow); C) Cardiac MRI, axial view in dark blood sequence, and T1-weighted image, confirms the continuity solution (arrow); D) short basal axis view sequence of cine-MRI (perfusion) shows isointense structure (muscular) and hypointense content. page: 11 (Eletronic Pages) Editorial Functional Capacity of Patients with Pacemaker Due to Isolated Perspectives and Evolution of Research in Cardiology and Congenital Atrioventricular Block Cardiovascular Sciences in Latin America Use of Short-term Circulatory Support as a Bridge in Pediatric Heart Behavioral Cardiology: Cardiology’s New Frontier of Action Transplantation Special Article Review Article Cardiovascular Research Publications from Latin America between 1999 and Effects of PDE type 5 inhibitors on Left Ventricular Diastolic 2008. A Bibliometric Study Dysfunction in Resistant Hypertension Original Articles Letter to the Editor Heart Rate Variability and Chagas Heart Disease BNP was Associated with Ischemic Myocardial Scintigraphy and Death in Patients at Chest Pain Unit Investigation of Copy Number Variation in Children with Conotruncal Eletronic Pages Heart Defects Cost-Effectiveness of High, Moderate and Low-Dose Statins in the Clinicoradiological Session Prevention of Vascular Events in the Brazilian Public Health System Case 1/2015 A 76-year-old Male Patient with Ebstein Anomaly in Natural Course Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Systolic Dysfunction: Clinical and Case Report Echocardiographic Outcomes Pseudo-pulmonary embolism – a case of hypoxemia associated with Electrophysiological Studies and Radiofrequency Ablations in Children right-to-left shunt and Adolescents with Arrhythmia Image Death and Disability in Patients with Sleep Apnea – A Meta-analysis Left ventricular Diverticulum of the Interventricular Septum A JOURNAL OF SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE CARDIOLOGIA - Published since 1948 Contents Editorial Perspectives and Evolution of Research in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Sciences in Latin America Luiz Felipe P. Moreira .........................................................................................................................................................................page 1 Behavioral Cardiology: Cardiology’s New Frontier of Action Marcelo Katz e Mauricio Wajngarten .........................................................................................................................................................................page 3 Special Article Cardiovascular Research Publications from Latin America between 1999 and 2008. A Bibliometric Study Lisandro D. Colantonio, Abigail S. Baldridge, Mark D. Huffman, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Dorairaj Prabhakaran .........................................................................................................................................................................page 5 Original Articles Nuclear Cardiology and PET BNP was Associated with Ischemic Myocardial Scintigraphy and Death in Patients at Chest Pain Unit Jader Cunha de Azevedo, Bruno Cezario Costa Reis, Nathalia Monerat P.B. Barreto, Diogenes S.F. Junior, Lais S. Prezotti, Victor Rebelo Procaci, Vivian Werneck Octaviano, Andre Volschan, Evandro Tinoco Mesquita, Claudio Tinoco Mesquita .......................................................................................................................................................................page 16 Pediatric Cardiology Investigation of Copy Number Variation in Children with Conotruncal Heart Defects Carla Marques Rondon Campos, Evelin Aline Zanardo, Roberta Lelis Dutra, Leslie Domenici Kulikowski, Chong Ae Kim .......................................................................................................................................................................page 24 Dyslipidemias Cost-Effectiveness of High, Moderate and Low-Dose Statins in the Prevention of Vascular Events in the Brazilian Public Health System Rodrigo Antonini Ribeiro, Bruce Bartholow Duncan, Patricia Klarmann Ziegelmann, Steffan Frosi Stella, Jose Luiz da Costa Vieira, Luciane Maria Fabian Restelatto, Carisi Anne Polanczyk .......................................................................................................................................................................page 32 Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - Volume 104, Nº 1, January 2015 Electrophysiology/Arrhythmias Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Systolic Dysfunction: Clinical and Echocardiographic Outcomes Tasso Julio Lobo, Carlos Thiene Pachon, Jose Carlos Pachon, Enrique Indalecio Pachon, Maria Zelia Pachon, Juan Carlos Pachon, Tomas Guillermo Santillana, Juan Carlos Zerpa, Remy Nelson Albornoz, Adib Domingos Jatene .......................................................................................................................................................................page 45 Electrophysiological Studies and Radiofrequency Ablations in Children and Adolescents with Arrhythmia Mariana Fernandez Simão, Matheus Nardi Rios, Tiago Luiz Luz Leiria, Marcelo Lapa Kruse, Leonardo Martins Pires, Roberto Tofani SantAnna, Gustavo Glotz de Lima .......................................................................................................................................................................page 53 Ischemia/Myocardial Infarction Death and Disability in Patients with Sleep Apnea – A Meta-analysis Maria Inês Pires Fonseca, Telmo Pereira e Paulo Caseiro .......................................................................................................................................................................page 58 Pacemaker Functional Capacity of Patients with Pacemaker Due to Isolated Congenital Atrioventricular Block Roberto Márcio de Oliveira Júnior, Kátia Regina da Silva, Tatiana Satie Kawauchi, Lucas Bassolli de Oliveira Alves, Elizabeth Sartori Crevelari, Martino Martinelli Filho, Roberto Costa .......................................................................................................................................................................page 67 Heart Transplantation - Surgery Use of Short-term Circulatory Support as a Bridge in Pediatric Heart Transplantation Luiz Fernando Canêo, Leonardo Augusto Miana, Carla Tanamati, Juliano Gomes Penha, Monica Satsuki Shimoda, Estela Azeka, Nana Miura, Filomena Regina Barbosa Gomes Galas, Vanessa Alves Guimarães, Marcelo Biscegli Jatene .......................................................................................................................................................................page 78 Review Article Effects of PDE type 5 inhibitors on Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Resistant Hypertension Ana Paula Cabral de Faria, Rodrigo Modolo, Beatriz Vaz Domingues Moreno, Heitor Moreno .......................................................................................................................................................................page 85 Letter to the Editor Heart Rate Variability and Chagas Heart Disease Marcos Antonio Almeida-Santos, Antonio Carlos Sobral Sousa .......................................................................................................................................................................page 90 Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - Volume 104, Nº 1, January 2015 Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - Eletronic Pages Clinicoradiological Session Case 1/2015 A 76-year-old Male Patient with Ebstein Anomaly in Natural Course Edmar Atik ....................................................................................................................................................................page e1 Case Report Pseudo-pulmonary embolism – a case of hypoxemia associated with right-to-left shunt Mariana Faustino, Ana Oliveira Soares, Fernando Rodrigues, Rui Anjos, António Freitas, Victor M. Gil ....................................................................................................................................................................page e4 Image Left ventricular Diverticulum of the Interventricular Septum Silvio Henrique Barberato e Marcia Ferreira Alves Barberato ..................................................................................................................................................................page e10 * Indicate manuscripts only in the electronic version. To view them, visit: http://www.arquivosonline.com.br/2015/english/10401/edicaoatual.asp Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - Volume 104, Nº 1, January 2015 www.arquivosonline.com.br A JOURNAL OF SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DE CARDIOLOGIA - Published since 1948 Scientific Director Interventionist Cardiology Epidemiology/Statistics Maria da Consolação Vieira Moreira Pedro A. Lemos Lucia Campos Pellanda Chief Editor Pediatric/Congenital Cardiology Antonio Augusto Lopes Arterial Hypertension Luiz Felipe P. Moreira Paulo Cesar B. V. Jardim Arrhythmias/Pacemaker Associated Editors Mauricio Scanavacca Ergometrics, Exercise and Clinical Cardiology Cardiac Rehabilitation Non-Invasive Diagnostic Methods Ricardo Stein José Augusto