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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.20210764</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.36660/abc.20210764</article-id>
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          <subject>Editorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Uma Nova &#193;rea Promissora</article-title>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-4538-8710</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Plana</surname>
            <given-names>Juan Carlos</given-names>
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            <sup>1</sup>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Baylor College of Medicine</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Texas Heart Institute</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">Houston</named-content>
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        <country country="US">Estados Unidos da Am&#233;rica</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, Houston - Estados Unidos da Am&#233;rica</institution>
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        <corresp id="c01"> Correspond&#234;ncia: Juan Plana Gomez &#8226; One Baylor Plaza Houston TX, 77030, Houston &#8211; Estados Unidos da Am&#233;rica E-mail: <email>Juan.PlanaGomez@bcm.edu</email> </corresp>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <volume>117</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>614</fpage>
      <lpage>614</lpage>
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          <license-p> This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. </license-p>
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        <kwd>Ecocardiografia</kwd>
        <kwd>Insufici&#234;ncia Card&#237;aca</kwd>
        <kwd>Oncologistas</kwd>
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    <p>O termo &#8220;cardio-oncologia&#8221; foi criado h&#225; aproximadamente 15 anos. Eu me recordo dos prim&#243;rdios: &#250;ltima sess&#227;o do &#250;ltimo dia de encontros cient&#237;ficos locais e internacionais de cardiologia, com a presen&#231;a principalmente de amigos pr&#243;ximos. Grandes avan&#231;os na &#225;rea de cardio-oncologia ocorreram desde ent&#227;o, com a forma&#231;&#227;o de grupos de interesse e conselhos em nossas sociedades, e desenvolvimento de diretrizes cient&#237;ficas nos guiando na avalia&#231;&#227;o e no tratamento desses pacientes com condi&#231;&#245;es t&#227;o complexas.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> , <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> Assim, &#233; com enorme interesse que recebemos o &#8220;Posicionamento Brasileiro sobre o Uso da Multimodalidade de Imagens na Cardio-Oncologia - 2021&#8221;, um documento abrangente, muito bem escrito, e pr&#225;tico que servir&#225; como um recurso precioso para profissionais de imagem no Brasil e em todo o mundo.</p>
    <p>Sinto muito orgulho do que alcan&#231;amos at&#233; o momento, mas &#233; inevit&#225;vel pensar no que ainda precisa ser feito nos pr&#243;ximos quinze anos na &#225;rea de imagem em cardio-oncologia.</p>
    <p>A ecocardiografia &#233; e continuar&#225; sendo o carro-chefe nesta &#225;rea. No entanto, ainda existem discord&#226;ncias entre oncologistas e cardio-oncologistas sobre o valor de t&#233;cnicas avan&#231;adas como a ecocardiografia 3D e t&#233;cnica de <italic>strain</italic> . Qual &#233; o problema? Na &#225;rea de imagem, n&#227;o estamos acostumados a testar nossas modalidades de imagens quanto ao impacto sobre desfechos duros. Por outro lado, os oncologistas est&#227;o acostumados a grandes ensaios cl&#237;nicos de alta qualidade para testar suas interven&#231;&#245;es. Eles esperam que alcancemos os mesmos padr&#245;es. Um passo nessa dire&#231;&#227;o foi dado por investigadores do estudo SUCCOUR, em que pacientes foram separados aleatoriamente para realizarem ecocardiografia 3D ou com <italic>strain</italic> para avalia&#231;&#227;o de insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca est&#225;gio B. Apesar de os autores n&#227;o terem observado diferen&#231;as estatisticamente diferentes no desfecho prim&#225;rio de mudan&#231;a na eje&#231;&#227;o de fra&#231;&#227;o do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo (FEVE) entre os dois m&#233;todos, um menor n&#250;mero de pacientes preencheram os crit&#233;rios de disfun&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca relacionada &#224; terapia do c&#226;ncer durante o acompanhamento no grupo de pacientes com terapia guiada pelo <italic>strain</italic> longitudinal global (SLG). Ainda, a FEVE em um ano foi maior nesse grupo em compara&#231;&#227;o ao grupo com terapia guiada pela FEVE.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
    <p>Em rela&#231;&#227;o a outros m&#233;todos, vejo um grande futuro para a &#225;rea de imagens param&#233;tricas na resson&#226;ncia magn&#233;tica card&#237;aca. Quando se detecta disfun&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca, n&#227;o est&#225; claro qual o mecanismo fisiopatol&#243;gico que levou a essa condi&#231;&#227;o; a presen&#231;a de edema ou fibrose pode direcionar a dura&#231;&#227;o do tratamento desses pacientes.</p>
    <p>A tomografia computadorizada card&#237;aca continuar&#225; sendo muito &#250;til na avalia&#231;&#227;o de doen&#231;a card&#237;aca estrutural, especialmente doen&#231;a card&#237;aca induzida por radia&#231;&#227;o.</p>
    <p>Talvez a modalidade de imagem que parece ser menos promissora &#233; a cardiologia nuclear, devido a altas doses de radia&#231;&#227;o administradas, e o fato de a t&#233;cnica n&#227;o oferecer nada que os demais m&#233;todos que n&#227;o utilizam radia&#231;&#227;o j&#225; oferecem.</p>
    <p>Possivelmente, a principal pergunta &#233;: que desfechos oncologistas e m&#233;dicos especialistas em insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca esperam das t&#233;cnicas de imagens para incorpor&#225;-las nas suas condutas di&#225;rias &#8211; &#233; mortalidade ou interna&#231;&#245;es por insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca? Ser&#225; necess&#225;rio um acompanhamento em longo prazo de um grande n&#250;mero de pacientes. Eles ficar&#227;o satisfeitos com o impacto dessas t&#233;cnicas sobre o VO2 m&#225;ximo ou question&#225;rios de qualidade de vida? E quanto aos biomarcadores?</p>
    <p>Antecipo que os pr&#243;ximos 15 anos ser&#227;o dedicados &#224; gera&#231;&#227;o de desfechos para as nossas modalidades de imagens. N&#243;s trabalharemos pr&#243;ximos a nossos oncologistas e m&#233;dicos da insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca para lhes fornecer o n&#237;vel de evid&#234;ncia que buscam, levando o campo da Cardio-Oncologia a um novo patamar.</p>
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        <article-title>A Thriving New Field</article-title>
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            <surname>Plana</surname>
            <given-names>Juan Carlos</given-names>
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        <corresp id="c01001">Mailing Address: Juan Plana Gomez &#8226; One Baylor Plaza Houston TX, 77030, Houston &#8211; United States of America E-mail: Juan.PlanaGomez@bcm.edu</corresp>
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      <p>It has been approximately 15 years since the term &#8220;cardio-oncology&#8221; was coined. I remember the beginnings: last session of the last day in local and international cardiology scientific meetings, with the attendance of mostly close friends. The field of cardio-oncology has advanced considerably since that time, with formation of special interest groups and councils in our societies, and development of scientific statements guiding us as to how to evaluate and treat these very complex patients.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref> , <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> It is then with great interest that we receive the Brazilian Position Statement on the Use of Multimodality Imaging in Cardio-Oncology -2021, a comprehensive, very well written and practical document that will serve as an invaluable resource to imagers in Brazil and all over the world.</p>
      <p>I feel very proud of what we have accomplished but can&#8217;t help thinking of what needs to be done in the next fifteen years in the field of Imaging in Cardio-Oncology.</p>
      <p>Echocardiography is and will continue to be the working horse in the field. Nevertheless, there are still disagreements between oncologists and cardio-oncologists on the value of advanced techniques like 3D echocardiography and strain Imaging. What is the problem? In the field of imaging, we are not used to putting our imaging modalities to the test looking for an impact on hard endpoints. In contrast, oncologists are used to high-quality large randomized clinical trials to test their interventions. They hold us to the same standards. A step in that direction was taken by the SUCCOUR investigators, randomizing patients to strain vs 3D echocardiography for adjudication of stage B heart failure. Although the primary outcome of change in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was not significantly different between the two arms, there were fewer patients meeting the cancer therapeutics-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) criteria during follow-up in the global longitudinal strain (GLS)-guided group. Also, the 1-year LVEF was higher in the GLS-guided group when compared with the LVEF-guided arm.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
      <p>As far as other modalities are concerned, I see a great future for parametric imaging in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging. When cardiac dysfunction is detected, it is unclear what is the pathophysiologic mechanism driving it; the presence of edema or fibrosis may guide treatment duration in these patients.</p>
      <p>Cardiac computed tomography will continue to be very helpful in the assessment of structural heart disease especially in the setting of radiation induced heart disease.</p>
      <p>Perhaps the imaging modality that appears the least promising is nuclear cardiology, due to the high doses of radiation administered and the fact that they don&#8217;t bring to the table anything unique that their non-radiation counterparts can do.</p>
      <p>Possibly, the main question is what outcomes oncologists and heart failure doctors expect from imaging modalities to incorporate them in their day-to-day operations &#8211; is it mortality or heart failure admissions? A long-term follow-up of a large number of patients will be required. Will they be satisfied with the impact of these techniques on VO<sub>2</sub>max or quality of life questionnaires? What about biomarkers?</p>
      <p>I anticipate that the next 15 years will be devoted to the generation of outcome data for our modalities. We will work closely with our oncologists and heart failure doctors to provide them with the level of evidence that they are looking for, taking the filed of Cardio-Oncology to the next level.</p>
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