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Should We “Tweak” Our Approach to Coronary Artery Disease?

Despite our great advances in medical technology, Cardiovascular Disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is one of the hallmarks.

It is believed that the first correlation between coronary flow and angina pectoris was made by William Heberden in 1768, but its anatomical remarks were only described by 1829, when Jean Lobstein introduced the term Arteriosclerosis, reporting an abnormal formation in arterial walls. Later, in 1856, Rudolph Virchow suggested an arterial wall injury mechanism that could explain those findings from a cellular pathology compound. However, it was only until the 20^thcentury, in the late 70´s, that the consortium of endothelial damage-wall shear stress-smooth muscle proliferation-thrombogenesis was first elucidated in the “Response to Injury Hypothesis” by Ross et al..

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Nuclear Cardiology in 2020 – Perspectives of the New SBC Guideline

Cláudio Tinoco Mesquita et al. Wilter dos Santos Ker Jader Cunha de Azevedo

French physicist François Arago’s quote is one of the most powerful summaries of scientific activity, starting with the search for existing knowledge, followed by the discovery of new information and culminating in their prompt communication. This flow is essential for scientific progress to reach and transform society. Thus, in the medical area, guidelines are considered to be essential for the organization and guidance of conducts and knowledge in a structured manner and within a pre-established method. The development of consistent and up-to-date guidelines is one of the most important tasks of a medical specialty society and involves the considerable effort of multiple specialists in the field of knowledge, reviewers, layout editors, among others. In addition to the arduous and complex task, the preparation of recommendations has against it the uninterrupted flow of publications that appear every day and that can change the current state of knowledge. We should highlight the amplitude, up-to-date status, and extensive applicability of this Nuclear Cardiology Guideline jointly developed by the Nuclear Cardiology Area of the Department of Ergometry, Exercise, Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (DERC), by the Department of Cardiovascular Imaging (DIC) of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC) and the Brazilian Society of Nuclear Medicine (SBMN).

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Should We “Tweak” Our Approach to Coronary Artery Disease?

Nuclear Cardiology in 2020 – Perspectives of the New SBC Guideline

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