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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v3">dg5Z6Pws3jyS5q3nRbJ3KWB</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v2">S0066-782X2014000400012</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">00012</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20140046</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Carta ao Editor</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="pt">An&#225;lise do Artigo Correla&#231;&#227;o da Espessura M&#233;dio-intimal das
               Car&#243;tidas Primitivas Proximal e Distal</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rosa</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Maffini da</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Silva</surname>
            <given-names>Gerson Deutner da</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Paim</surname>
            <given-names>Jaqueline de Lima</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <aff>
          <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de Caxias do Sul</institution>
          <addr-line>
            <named-content content-type="city">Caxias do Sul</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
          </addr-line>
          <country>Brasil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do
                  Sul, RS - Brasil</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c01"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Roberta Casanova Wilhelms</bold>, Rua Humberto de Campos,
               1.113, Cristo Redentor. CEP 95084-440, Caxias do Sul, RS - Brasil. E-mail:
                  <email>beta.rcw@gmail.com</email>; <email>robi_casanova@hotmail.com</email></corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
        <month>04</month>
        <year>2014</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>102</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>413</fpage>
      <lpage>413</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>25</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2013</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">
          <license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
                  Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted
                  non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
                  original work is properly cited. </license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="pt">
        <kwd>Les&#245;es das art&#233;rias car&#243;tidas</kwd>
        <kwd>Diagn&#243;stico por imagem</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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    <p>
      <bold>Prezado Editor,</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Concordamos inteiramente com os autores quanto &#224; necessidade de rastrear toda a extens&#227;o
         das car&#243;tidas (comum, interna e externa)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>. Por&#233;m,
         acrescentar&#237;amos a import&#226;ncia de rastre&#225;-la lentamente e no plano coronal, e de medir o
         local em que, visualmente, a espessura IMT &#233; maior. A vis&#227;o coronal do vaso permite
         incluir, durante a avalia&#231;&#227;o, as paredes laterais da car&#243;tida, o que agrega veracidade ao
            exame<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref>.</p>
    <p>A experi&#234;ncia que um de n&#243;s teve em sua disserta&#231;&#227;o de mestrado em Ecografia de Car&#243;tidas
         diz que manter rigidamente os pontos eleitos para medida pela <italic>American Society of
            Echocardiography </italic>(ASE) traz distor&#231;&#245;es quanto ao espessamento m&#225;ximo da IMC,
         que &#233; poss&#237;vel se obter em cada caso<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref>.</p>
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      <title>Refer&#234;ncias</title>
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        <mixed-citation>1. Roelke LH, Rodrigues SL, Lotufo PA, Mill JG. Correla&#231;&#227;o da espessura
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              <surname>Lotufo</surname>
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            </name>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="pt">Carta-resposta</article-title>
      </title-group>
    </front-stub>
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      <p>Agradecemos pelos coment&#225;rios enviados. &#201; importante levar em considera&#231;&#227;o que os
               <italic>softwares</italic> atualmente dispon&#237;veis s&#227;o baseados em pesquisa
            epidemiol&#243;gica e medem apenas um pequeno segmento arterial. Para a pr&#225;tica cl&#237;nica,
            seria importante dispor de outros m&#233;todos de aferi&#231;&#227;o, que permitissem medir o maior
            n&#250;mero de pontos poss&#237;veis ao longo das car&#243;tidas. Talvez a ultrassonografia
            tridimenssional ou outro m&#233;todo de imagem fosse &#250;til, se fosse poss&#237;vel determinar uma
            massa intimal maior a ser aferida. O IMT &#233; um importante marcador substituto para
            ateromatose e tem sido cada vez mais importante para orientar condutas cl&#237;nicas em
            pacientes. Enquanto essas tecnologias n&#227;o estiverem totalmente dispon&#237;veis, acreditamos
            que aferir o espessamento intimal nas car&#243;tidas com abordagem longitudinal, e tamb&#233;m
            coronal, como sugerem nossos colegas, seria o ideal, no momento, para uma melhor
            avalia&#231;&#227;o dos pacientes.</p>
      <sig-block>
        <sig>Atenciosamente,<break/><bold>Leonard Hermann Roelke</bold><break/><bold>Sergio
                  Lamego Rodrigues</bold>
               <break/><bold>Paulo Andrade Lotufo</bold><break/><bold>Jose Geraldo Mill</bold></sig>
      </sig-block>
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    <front-stub>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Letter To The Editor</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title xml:lang="en">Analysis of the Article Correlation Between the
               Intima-Media Thickness of the Proximal and Distal Common Carotids</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rosa</surname>
            <given-names>Eduardo Maffini da</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Silva</surname>
            <given-names>Gerson Deutner da</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Paim</surname>
            <given-names>Jaqueline de Lima</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <aff>
          <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de Caxias do Sul</institution>
          <addr-line>
            <named-content content-type="city">Caxias do Sul</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
          </addr-line>
          <country>Brazil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS), Caxias do
                  Sul, RS - Brazil</institution>
        </aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c02"><bold>Mailing Address: Roberta Casanova Wilhelms</bold>, Rua Humberto de Campos,
               1.113, Cristo Redentor. Postal Code 95084-440, Caxias do Sul, RS &#8211; Brazil. E-mail:
                  <email>beta.rcw@gmail.com</email>; <email>robi_casanova@hotmail.com</email>
            </corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="pt">
        <kwd>Carotid artery injuries</kwd>
        <kwd>Diagnostic imaging</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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    <body>
      <p>
        <bold>Dear Editor,</bold>
      </p>
      <p>We totally agree with the authors regarding the need to screen the entire extension of
            the carotid arteries (common, internal and external)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>. However, we would add the importance of screening them slowly and in the
            coronal plane, and of measuring the site where the intima-media thickness is visually
            greater. During the assessment, the coronal view of the vessel allows including the
            carotid lateral walls, adding accuracy to the examination<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref>.</p>
      <p>One of our colleagues, in his Master's degree thesis on Echography of the Carotid
            Arteries, concluded that strictly maintaining the measurement points elected by the
            American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) causes distortions regarding the maximum
            intima-media thickness, which can be obtained in each case<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref>.</p>
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        <title-group>
          <article-title xml:lang="en">Reply</article-title>
        </title-group>
      </front-stub>
      <body>
        <p>We thank your comments. It is important to consider that the software currently
               available is based on epidemiological research and measures only one small arterial
               segment. For clinical practice, it would be important to have other measuring methods
               that would assess a greater number of points along the carotid arteries.
               Three-dimensional ultrasound or another imaging method might be useful if a greater
               intimal mass to be measured could be determined. Intima-media thickness is a
               significant surrogate marker for atheromatosis, whose importance in guiding the
               clinical management of patients has increased. While such technologies are not fully
               available, we believe that measuring the carotid intima media thickness with
               longitudinal and coronal approaches, as suggested by our colleagues, would be
               currently ideal to better assess our patients.</p>
        <sig-block>
          <sig>Sincerely,<break/><bold>Leonard Hermann Roelke</bold><break/><bold>Sergio Lamego
                     Rodrigues</bold>
                  <break/><bold>Paulo Andrade Lotufo</bold><break/><bold>Jose Geraldo
                  Mill</bold></sig>
        </sig-block>
      </body>
    </sub-article>
  </sub-article>
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