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Editorial

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC Cardiol) and the new classification Qualis of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Carlos E. Rochitte et al. Alexandre Schaan de Quadros Amanda Guerra de Moraes Rego Sousa Ana Marice Teixeira Ladeia … Andréa Araujo Brandão Andrea De Lorenzo Andrei Sposito Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro Claudio Tinoco Mesquita Fernanda Marciano Consolim Colombo José Antônio Marin-Neto Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar Marcelo Bertolami Ricardo Stein Sandra Fuchs Sergio Emanuel Kaiser Romeu Sergio Meneghelo Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira

The Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC), the official scientific journal of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (BSC), is currently the journal in Cardiology with the highest impact in Brazil and Latin America, with a 2018 JCR impact factor of 1.679. During its history, the ABC has played an important role of publishing scientific papers produced in Brazil in journals indexed in the most prominent English-language, international databases. It thus acts as a window to the world of the Brazilian scientific production.

The mission of the ABC is to disseminate the results of national and international studies on cardiovascular diseases, to foster scientific debate on the area by means of review articles, viewpoints, editorials, letters and others, and to publish BSC scientific guidelines and standards. The journal’s commitment is in line with the mission of the BSC to expand and spread the knowledge about cardiovascular science, to represent and promote the development of cardiologists and to take actions for the cardiovascular health in Brazil.

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ABC

Editorial

Structural Heart Interventional Imagers – The New Face of Cardiac Imaging

João L. Cavalcante et al. Dee Dee Wang

Training in structural heart disease imaging

Although training in multi-modality imaging has been well outlined, there are no specific training guidelines and/or requirements for SHD imagers as demonstrated by the results of a recent European survey. Some of the challenges currently faced by cardiology fellows who look for SHD imaging training include finding training centers with enough high-risk clinical volume and exposure to a variety of high-risk procedures so they can train beyond traditional TAVR procedures. This brings an inevitable question of whether adequate SHD imaging training should therefore be reserved to a small number of centers with sufficient knowledge and experience in these procedures. What should constitute the minimal portfolio of procedures, their degree of complexity, the number of cases performed for procedural planning and for intraprocedural guidance to achieve adequate proficiency are some of the questions whose answers remain unclear.

The majority of high-volume programs can provide comprehensive exposure for adequate training, particularly in TAVR, Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) and Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) closure procedures. Transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip system (Abbott Vascular, Menlo Park, CA) is also becoming increasingly more commonly performed and should become a standard part of the SHD imager training. On the other hand, transcatheter procedures such as paravalvular leak closure, transcatheter mitral valve replacement and percutaneous tricuspid interventions are more complex and less frequently performed, and therefore should involve different expectations for what is considered the minimal requirement to achieve proficiency.

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Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC Cardiol) and the new classification Qualis of Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Structural Heart Interventional Imagers – The New Face of Cardiac Imaging

Training in structural heart disease imaging

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