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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20190151</article-id>
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          <subject>Short Editorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Global Longitudinal Strain or Measurement of Ejection Fraction: Which Method is Better in Stratifying Patients with Heart Failure?</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-6929-8392</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Ferrari</surname>
            <given-names>Filipe</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Menegazzo</surname>
            <given-names>Willian Roberto</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
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      <aff id="aff1">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA)</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Sciences</institution>
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          <city>Porto Alegre</city>
          <state>RS</state>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Graduate Program in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Sciences, Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil</institution>
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        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Exercise Cardiology Research Group (CardioEx)</institution>
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          <city>Porto Alegre</city>
          <state>RS</state>
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        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Exercise Cardiology Research Group (CardioEx), Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS - Brazil</institution>
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      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Mailing Address: Filipe Ferrari,</bold> Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Rua Mariana Prezzi, 617, 43B. Postal Code: 95034-460, Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, RS - Brazil. E-mail: <email>ferrari.filipe88@gmail.com</email>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>02</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>113</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>195</fpage>
      <lpage>196</lpage>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Heart Failure</kwd>
        <kwd>Systolic</kwd>
        <kwd>Myocardial Contraction</kwd>
        <kwd>Myocardial Stunning</kwd>
        <kwd>Stroke Volume: Strain</kwd>
        <kwd>Echocardiography/methods</kwd>
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    <p>Heart failure (HF) is a complex syndrome that has a poor prognosis and a stigma of high mortality.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> The current prevalence estimated in the United States is six million cases, with a predicted incidence of another two million patients until 2030.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> Brazil, specifically, had more than 26 thousand deaths by HF in 2012 and approximately 230 thousand hospitalizations attributed to this disease.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>
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    <p>The main HF symptoms include progressive dyspnea, fatigue, exercise intolerance, and signs of volume overload, reducing the functional capacity and quality of life of patients and greatly increasing the risk of morbidity and mortality.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> In this regard, a peak oxygen consumption (maxVO<sub>2</sub>), on average, approximately 50% lower is not uncommon in HF patients when compared to healthy individuals paired by variables such as age and gender.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> The cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is a method widely used and trusted in this scenario, with a consistent role in risk stratification of HF patients and various variables obtained with consolidated prognostic value. MaxVO<sub>2</sub> is an important marker of one-year mortality, surpassing ejection fraction and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, used as Class I to define candidates for heart transplantation.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref> Other prognostic markers obtained from CPET that proved to be important in this population include the measurement of ventilatory efficiency through the VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> slope, regular ventilation, oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES), heart rate recovery (HRR) in the first minute, chronotropic competence, and partial pressure of carbon dioxide at rest (PetCO<sub>2</sub>).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref>
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    <p>HF patients are usually classified according to their left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF); however, the prognostic value of LVEF can be controversial.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> Following this reasoning, although the LVEF measurement is a validated method that has been widely used for decades, the assessment of myocardial deformation with the Global Longitudinal Strain (GLS) has shown greater effectiveness in analyzing the overall breakdown of the left ventricle when compared to the LVEF measurement. GLS can provide an additional value for prognostic HF stratification, regardless of the LVEF values, and serve as an auxiliary instrument for therapeutic decision making in specific clinical situations in this population, such as: cardiac defibrillator and resynchronization device implantation, indication of ventricular assist devices, and follow-up of patients with cardiotoxicity due to chemotherapeutic agents.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref>
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    <p>Recently, Park et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref> assessed the prognostic value of GLS in more than 4 thousand individuals with acute HF, divided into preserved (&#8805;50%), mid-range (40-49%), and reduced LVEF (&lt;40%). The primary outcome analyzed was all-cause mortality, evaluated over five years. Patients with reduced and preserved LVEF presented lower and higher GLS, respectively. GLS, but not LVEF, was an independent predictor of mortality in the whole group of patients. The three groups presented no significant difference in mortality; however, individuals with reduced LVEF had slightly higher mortality compared to those with mid-range or preserved LVEF (41%, 38%, and 39%, respectively).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref> Corroborating these findings, Sengelov et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">12</xref> showed in an echocardiographic analysis of more than one thousand subjects that GLS was the main predictor of mortality in HF and reduced LVEF patients. Even after adjustment for several variables, such as age, gender, cholesterol, blood pressure, heart rate, ischemic cardiomyopathy, and conventional echocardiographic parameters, no other echocardiographic parameter remained an independent predictor. Therefore, despite the need for further randomized trials to confirm the applicability of the method in clinical practice, the evidence points to the superiority of GLS in predicting the mortality of HF patients - higher than even LVEF. </p>
    <p>In this issue of the Journal of Brazilian Society of Cardiology, Maia et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> conducted a cross-sectional study to verify the correlation between GLS findings and CPET parameters in a sample comprising 26 HF patients of both genders, sedentary, with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class II and III, reduced LVEF, and mean age of 47 years. The patients showed a mean strain of -7.5 &#177; 3.92, maxVO<sub>2</sub> of 19.09 &#177; 9.52 mL.kg.min, VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> slope of 39.43 &#177; 9.91, HRR of 19.65 &#177; 17.42, and T<sub>1/2</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> (s) of 168.61 &#177; 43.90. They found a statistically significant correlation between GLS and all CPET variables analyzed: HRR, maxVO<sub>2</sub>, VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> slope, and T<sub>1/2</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> (s).</p>
    <p>Regarding HRR in the first minute post-exercise, patients with slower heart rate reduction showed a strong correlation with lower GLS values. When compared to data collected from CPET, LVEF presented a significant correlation only with maxVO<sub>2</sub> (direct) and T<sub>1/2</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> (s) (inverse). On the other hand, GLS was able to predict all variables analyzed by CPET. In short, the study aimed to show the correlation of functional capacity and other CPET variables with GLS, both with established prognostic roles, and that GLS might be more accurate when classifying the severity of HF patients compared to LVEF, providing important knowledge and possible future applications in this scenario.</p>
    <p>Nevertheless, the study by Maia et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> has important issues that should be addressed. The low sample size is a significant limitation of the study, making it impossible to extrapolate the data and use them routinely in clinical practice. Also, the study was not designed and did not have the power to demonstrate the prognostic impact of the findings. On the other hand, the data corroborate previous findings of the literature, indicating that the smaller the GLS value found, the poorer the functional capacity of the individual tends to be; these data are relevant, as they predict a worse prognosis. These outcomes help open new doors and perspectives for further studies in this field, which could confirm important messages conveyed in the literature and strengthened by Brazilian authors.</p>
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        <p>Short Editorial related to the article: Global Longitudinal Strain Predicts Poor Functional Capacity in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure</p>
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        <article-title><italic>Strain</italic> Longitudinal Global ou Medida da Fra&#231;&#227;o de Eje&#231;&#227;o: Qual M&#233;todo Estratifica Melhor os Pacientes com Insufici&#234;ncia Card&#237;aca?</article-title>
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            <surname>Ferrari</surname>
            <given-names>Filipe</given-names>
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            <surname>Menegazzo</surname>
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        <institution content-type="original">Programa de P&#243;s-Gradua&#231;&#227;o em Cardiologia e Ci&#234;ncias Cardiovasculares, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Hospital de Cl&#237;nicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Porto Alegre, RS - Brasil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Filipe Ferrari,</bold> Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Rua Mariana Prezzi, 617, 43B. CEP: 95034-460, Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, RS - Brasil. E-mail: <email>ferrari.filipe88@gmail.com</email>
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      <p>A insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca (IC) &#233; uma s&#237;ndrome complexa, de mau progn&#243;stico e com estigma de alta mortalidade.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> A preval&#234;ncia atual estimada nos Estados Unidos &#233; de seis milh&#245;es de casos, com uma incid&#234;ncia prevista de mais dois milh&#245;es de pacientes at&#233; 2030.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref> No Brasil, especificamente, ocorreram mais de 26 mil mortes por IC em 2012, com aproximadamente 230 mil interna&#231;&#245;es sendo atribu&#237;das a essa doen&#231;a.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref>
			</p>
      <p>Os principais sintomas da IC incluem dispneia progressiva, fadiga, intoler&#226;ncia ao esfor&#231;o f&#237;sico e sinais de sobrecarga vol&#234;mica, gerando redu&#231;&#227;o na capacidade funcional e qualidade de vida dos pacientes e aumentando consideravelmente o risco de morbimortalidade.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref> Nesse sentido, n&#227;o &#233; raro que o consumo de oxig&#234;nio de pico (maxVO<sub>2</sub>) seja, em m&#233;dia, aproximadamente 50% menor em pacientes com IC quando comparados a indiv&#237;duos saud&#225;veis pareados por vari&#225;veis como idade e sexo.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref> Por sua vez, o teste de exerc&#237;cio cardiopulmonar (TECP) &#233; um m&#233;todo amplamente utilizado e confi&#225;vel nesse cen&#225;rio, com papel consistente na estratifica&#231;&#227;o de risco de pacientes com IC e com diversas vari&#225;veis obtidas com valor progn&#243;stico consolidado. O maxVO<sub>2</sub> &#233; um importante marcador de mortalidade em 1 ano, superando a fra&#231;&#227;o de eje&#231;&#227;o e a press&#227;o capilar pulmonar; sendo utilizado como Classe I para defini&#231;&#227;o de candidatura para transplante card&#237;aco.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref> Outros marcadores progn&#243;sticos obtidos do TECP, como a medida da efici&#234;ncia ventilat&#243;ria atrav&#233;s da inclina&#231;&#227;o VE/VCO<sub>2</sub>, a presen&#231;a de ventila&#231;&#227;o peri&#243;dica, inclina&#231;&#227;o da efici&#234;ncia de capta&#231;&#227;o do oxig&#234;nio (OUES), a recupera&#231;&#227;o da frequ&#234;ncia card&#237;aca no primeiro minuto, a compet&#234;ncia cronotr&#243;pica e a press&#227;o parcial de di&#243;xido de carbono no repouso (PetCO<sub>2</sub>) se mostraram marcadores progn&#243;sticos importantes nesta popula&#231;&#227;o.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref>
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      <p>Os pacientes com IC s&#227;o comumente classificados de acordo com a sua fra&#231;&#227;o de eje&#231;&#227;o do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo (FEVE); no entanto, o valor progn&#243;stico da FEVE pode ser controverso.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref> Seguindo esse racioc&#237;nio, apesar da medida da FEVE ser um m&#233;todo validado e utilizado amplamente h&#225; d&#233;cadas, a avalia&#231;&#227;o da deforma&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica atrav&#233;s do <italic>Strain</italic> Longitudinal Global (SLG) vem demonstrando maior efic&#225;cia na an&#225;lise do desarranjo global do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo quando comparado &#224; medida da FEVE. O SLG pode fornecer valor adicional na estratifica&#231;&#227;o progn&#243;stica da IC, independentemente dos valores da FEVE, e servir como instrumento adicional na tomada de decis&#227;o terap&#234;utica em situa&#231;&#245;es cl&#237;nicas espec&#237;ficas nessa popula&#231;&#227;o, como: implante de cardiodesfibriladores e ressincronizadores, indica&#231;&#227;o de dispositivos de assist&#234;ncia ventricular e seguimento de pacientes com cardiotoxicidade por quimioter&#225;picos.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref>
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      <p>Recentemente, Park et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref> avaliaram o valor progn&#243;stico do SLG em mais de 4 mil indiv&#237;duos com IC aguda, divididos em FEVE preservada (&#8805;50%), <italic>midrange</italic> (40-49%) e reduzida (&lt;40%). O desfecho prim&#225;rio analisado foi mortalidade por todas as causas, avaliada num per&#237;odo de 5 anos. Os pacientes com FEVE reduzida e FEVE preservada apresentaram menor e maior SLG, respectivamente. O SLG, mas n&#227;o a FEVE, foi um preditor independente de mortalidade em todo o grupo de pacientes. N&#227;o houve diferen&#231;a significativa de mortalidade entre os 3 grupos; todavia, aqueles com FEVE reduzida tiveram mortalidade ligeiramente maior comparados com FEVE <italic>midrange</italic> ou preservada (41%, 38% e 39%), respectivamente.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">11</xref> Corroborando com esses resultados, Sengelov et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">12</xref> em an&#225;lises ecocardiogr&#225;ficas de mais de mil pacientes, mostraram que o SLG foi o maior preditor de mortalidade em pacientes com IC e FEVE reduzida. Mesmo ap&#243;s ajuste para diversas vari&#225;veis, como idade, sexo, colesterol, press&#227;o arterial, frequ&#234;ncia card&#237;aca, cardiopatia isqu&#234;mica e par&#226;metros ecocardiogr&#225;ficos convencionais, nenhum outro par&#226;metro ecocardiogr&#225;fico permaneceu como preditor independente ap&#243;s ajuste para essas vari&#225;veis. Portanto, apesar da necessidade de ensaios cl&#237;nicos randomizados futuros para confirma&#231;&#227;o da aplicabilidade do m&#233;todo na pr&#225;tica cl&#237;nica, as evid&#234;ncias apontam para uma superioridade do SLG para a predi&#231;&#227;o de mortalidade em pacientes com IC, mais do que a pr&#243;pria FEVE.</p>
      <p>Nesta edi&#231;&#227;o dos Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, Maia et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> conduziram um estudo transversal para verificar a correla&#231;&#227;o entre achados do SLG e par&#226;metros do TECP em uma amostra composta por 26 pacientes com IC de ambos os sexos, sedent&#225;rios, classe funcional II e III da NYHA, FEVE reduzida e idade m&#233;dia de 47 anos. Os pacientes apresentaram um <italic>strain</italic> m&#233;dio de -7,5 &#177; 3,92, maxVO<sub>2</sub> de 19,09 &#177; 9,52 mL.kg.min, inclina&#231;&#227;o de VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> de 39,43 &#177; 9,91, recupera&#231;&#227;o da frequ&#234;ncia card&#237;aca (RFC) de 19,65 &#177; 17,42 e um T<sub>1/2</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> (s) de 168,61 &#177; 43,90. Foi observada uma correla&#231;&#227;o estatisticamente significativa entre o SLG e todas as vari&#225;veis do TECP analisadas, leia-se: RFC, maxVO<sub>2</sub>, inclina&#231;&#227;o de VE/VCO<sub>2</sub> e T<sub>1/2</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> (s).</p>
      <p>Em rela&#231;&#227;o &#224; RFC no primeiro minuto p&#243;s-esfor&#231;o, naqueles pacientes cuja redu&#231;&#227;o da FC foi mais demorada, observou-se uma forte correla&#231;&#227;o com valores mais baixos no SLG. Quando a FEVE foi confrontada aos dados obtidos pelo TECP, houve correla&#231;&#227;o significativa apenas com o maxVO<sub>2</sub> (direta) e com o T<sub>1/2</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> (s) (inversa). Todavia, o SLG foi capaz de predizer todas as vari&#225;veis analisadas pelo TECP. Em s&#237;ntese, a mensagem central do estudo &#233; a demonstra&#231;&#227;o da correla&#231;&#227;o da capacidade funcional e de outras vari&#225;veis do TECP ao SGL, ambos com papel progn&#243;stico estabelecido, e a demonstra&#231;&#227;o de que o SLG pode ser mais preciso para classifica&#231;&#227;o da gravidade dos pacientes com IC comparado &#224; FEVE, o que agrega importante conhecimento e poss&#237;veis aplica&#231;&#245;es futuras nesse cen&#225;rio.</p>
      <p>Entretanto, no estudo de Maia et al.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">13</xref> h&#225; ressalvas importantes que devem ser consideradas. O baixo tamanho da amostra &#233; uma limita&#231;&#227;o importante do estudo, o que n&#227;o permite que os dados sejam extrapolados e usados ainda de maneira rotineira na pr&#225;tica cl&#237;nica. O estudo tamb&#233;m n&#227;o teve desenho e poder para a demonstra&#231;&#227;o do impacto progn&#243;stico dos achados. Por outro lado, os dados corroboram com achados pr&#233;vios da literatura, indicando que quanto menor o valor encontrado no SLG encontrado, menor tende a ser a capacidade funcional do indiv&#237;duo; esses dados s&#227;o relevantes, pois predizem pior progn&#243;stico. Esses achados ajudam a abrir novas portas e perspectivas para maiores estudos nesse cen&#225;rio, os quais podem confirmar as importantes mensagens apresentadas na literatura e fortalecida pelos autores brasileiros.</p>
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          <p>Minieditorial referente ao artigo: Strain Longitudinal Global &#233; Preditor de Baixa Capacidade Funcional em Pacientes com Insufici&#234;ncia Card&#237;aca Sist&#243;lica</p>
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