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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>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">abc.20200195</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abc.20200195</article-id>
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          <subject>Carta ao Editor</subject>
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        <article-title>Evolu&#231;&#227;o Temporal da An&#225;lise de Resultados do Emprego do iFR</article-title>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-8973-4438</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Ferreira</surname>
            <given-names>Maria Cristina Meira</given-names>
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          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">1</xref>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-0737-6188</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Oliveira</surname>
            <given-names>Gl&#225;ucia Maria Moraes de</given-names>
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          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">2</xref>
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          <institution content-type="orgname">Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado</institution>
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            <named-content content-type="city">Rio de Janeiro</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RJ</named-content>
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          <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado - Servi&#231;o de Hemodin&#226;mica, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brasil</institution>
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          <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro</institution>
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            <named-content content-type="city">Rio de Janeiro</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">RJ</named-content>
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          <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c1"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Maria Cristina Meira Ferreira</bold> &#8226; Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado - Servi&#231;o de Hemodin&#226;mica - Rua Sacadura Cabral, 178. CEP <postal-code>20221-903</postal-code>, Rio de Janeiro, RJ &#8211; Brasil. E-mail: <email>mc.meira.ferreira@gmail.com</email>, <email>macris1500@gmail.com</email></corresp>
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        <day>23</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2020</year>
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      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="collection">
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2020</year>
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      <volume>115</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>719</fpage>
      <lpage>719</lpage>
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        <date date-type="received">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2020</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>03</month>
          <year>2020</year>
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          <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License</license-p>
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        <title>Palavras-chave</title>
        <kwd>Isquemia Mioc&#225;rdica</kwd>
        <kwd>Reserva Fracionada do Fluxo do Mioc&#225;rdio</kwd>
        <kwd>Stents</kwd>
        <kwd>Doen&#231;a da Art&#233;ria Coronariana</kwd>
        <kwd>Interven&#231;&#227;o Coron&#225;ria Percut&#226;nea/m&#233;todos</kwd>
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    <p>Senhor Editor,</p>
    <p>Lemos com muito interesse o minieditorial escrito pelos autores Chami&#233; e Abzaid<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1"><sup>1</sup></xref> referente ao artigo &#8220;Avalia&#231;&#227;o de isquemia mioc&#225;rdica na sala de hemodin&#226;mica com <italic>instanataneous wave-free ratio</italic>: estudo piloto&#8221;.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2"><sup>2</sup></xref> O minieditorial nos traduz com clareza a hist&#243;rica evolu&#231;&#227;o de racioc&#237;nio que devemos seguir na interpreta&#231;&#227;o do estudo de fisiologia coron&#225;ria na tomada de decis&#227;o terap&#234;utica. Embora a medicina seja plena de situa&#231;&#245;es bin&#225;rias para resolu&#231;&#227;o, como presen&#231;a ou aus&#234;ncia de febre pelo term&#244;metro, fica muito claro que n&#237;veis diferentes de valores referem-se a diagn&#243;sticos, progn&#243;sticos e condutas diferentes. Com rela&#231;&#227;o &#224;s avalia&#231;&#245;es funcionais coronarianas, ap&#243;s uma enorme quantidade de estudos bin&#225;rios para demonstrar sua validade, recentes <italic>trials</italic> citados no minieditorial nos conduzem a uma fase onde o poder decis&#243;rio cl&#237;nico volta a ter peso importante e,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3"><sup>3</sup></xref> o dissertar desta mudan&#231;a de rumos ocorreu de forma brilhante pelo minieditorial. N&#227;o deixamos de relevar o racioc&#237;nio cl&#237;nico e outros fatores em nosso estudo, uma vez que o preditor de coloca&#231;&#227;o de <italic>stent</italic> foi iFR &lt; 0,87 neste grupo, apesar do valor de corte estabelecido para o iFR ser 0,89, havendo uma significativa redu&#231;&#227;o do emprego de <italic>stents</italic>.</p>
    <p>Cabe-nos ressaltar que nosso estudo foi realizado com dados coletados no per&#237;odo de 2014 a 2018, abrangendo um longo per&#237;odo em que o iFR ainda n&#227;o tinha o corte bin&#225;rio bem estabelecido. At&#233; a publica&#231;&#227;o dos grandes <italic>trials Swedeheart e Define-Flair</italic> em 2017, considerava-se os valores de iFR &gt; 0,86 e iFR&lt;0,93 como zona cinzenta, e as diretrizes referentes ao m&#233;todo indicavam emprego do <italic>fractional flow reserve</italic> (FFR).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4"><sup>4</sup></xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5"><sup>5</sup></xref> Neste cen&#225;rio de tempo, a coloca&#231;&#227;o de <italic>stents</italic> em pacientes com valores de iFR &#8804; 0,92 n&#227;o pode ser considerada desnecess&#225;ria como citada, pois havia car&#234;ncia de dados liter&#225;rios que corroborassem de forma definitiva o corte de 0,89, que s&#243; ocorreu ap&#243;s compara&#231;&#227;o entre os m&#233;todos FFR e iFR nos <italic>trials</italic> citados.</p>
    <p>Agrade&#231;o a oportunidade de poder esclarecer estes pontos e corroboro que o minieditorial nos direciona e nos esclarece n&#227;o s&#243; a necessidade de cada vez mais utilizarmos a fisiologia coron&#225;ria, mas tamb&#233;m de como utiliz&#225;-la nos dias de hoje, contribuindo de forma primorosa neste campo de estudo da cardiologia intervencionista.</p>
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          <subject>Letter to the Editor</subject>
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        <article-title>Temporal Evolution of the iFR (Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio) Employment Results Analysis</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Ferreira</surname>
            <given-names>Maria Cristina Meira</given-names>
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            <given-names>Gl&#225;ucia Maria Moraes de</given-names>
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          <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ &#8211; Brazil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c2"><bold>Mailing Address: Maria Cristina Meira Ferreira</bold> &#8226; Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado - Servi&#231;o de Hemodin&#226;mica - Rua Sacadura Cabral, 178. Postal Code <postal-code>20221-903</postal-code>, Rio de Janeiro, RJ &#8211; Brazil. E-mail: <email>mc.meira.ferreira@gmail.com</email>, <email>macris1500@gmail.com</email></corresp>
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        <title>Keywords:</title>
        <kwd>Myocardial Ischemia</kwd>
        <kwd>Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial</kwd>
        <kwd>Stents</kwd>
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      <p>Dear Editor,</p>
      <p>We read with interest the short editorial written by authors Chami&#233; and Abzaid<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1"><sup>1</sup></xref> regarding the paper &#8220;Evaluation of Myocardial Ischemia with iFR (instantaneous wave-free ratio) in the catheterization laboratory: a pilot study&#8221;.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2"><sup>2</sup></xref> The short editorial clearly translates to us the historical evolution reasoning that we must follow when interpreting coronary physiology studies in therapeutic decision-making. Although medicine is full of binary situations for resolution, such as the presence or absence of fever by the thermometer, it is very clear that different levels of values refer to different diagnoses, prognosis and treatments. With regard to coronary functional assessments, after an enormous amount of binary studies to demonstrate their validity, recent trials cited in the short editorial directed us to a phase where clinical decision-making power has an important weight once again,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3"><sup>3</sup></xref> and the dissertation of this change in direction occurred brilliantly in the editorial. We did not neglect the clinical reasoning and other factors in our study, since the stent placement predictor was iFR &lt; 0.87 in this group, despite the cutoff value established for iFR being 0.89, with a significant reduction in the use of stent.</p>
      <p>It is worth mentioning that our study was conducted with data collected from 2014 to 2018, covering a long period in which the iFR did not have a still well-established binary cutoff value. Until the publication of Swedeheart and Define-Flair trials in 2017, the values of iFR &gt; 0.86 and iFR &lt; 0.93 were considered as gray zone, where the guidelines for the method indicated the use of <italic>fractional flow reserve</italic> (FFR).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4"><sup>4</sup></xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5"><sup>5</sup></xref> In this time scenario, the placement of stents in patients with value of iFR &#8804; 0.92 cannot be considered unnecessary as mentioned, due to the lack of literary data that definitively corroborated the 0.89 cutoff value, which only occurred after comparison between the FFR and iFR methods in the trials aforementioned.</p>
      <p>I am grateful for the opportunity to clarify these points and corroborate that the editorial directs us and clarifies not only the need to increasingly use coronary physiology, but also how to use it today, contributing exquisitely in this area of interventional cardiology study.</p>
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