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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="doi">10.36660/abc.20260107</article-id>
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          <subject>Minieditorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Associa&#231;&#227;o entre Padr&#245;es Metab&#243;licos Card&#237;acos em PET/CT Oncol&#243;gico e Fatores de Risco Cardiovascular. Contribui&#231;&#227;o na Investiga&#231;&#227;o Precoce de Cardiotoxicidade</article-title>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0001-7096-3193</contrib-id>
          <name>
            <surname>Smanio</surname>
            <given-names>Paola Emanuela Poggio</given-names>
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            <sup>1</sup>
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          <label>1</label>
          <institution content-type="orgname">Fleury Group</institution>
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            <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
            <named-content content-type="state">SP</named-content>
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          <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
          <institution content-type="original">Fleury Group, S&#227;o Paulo, SP &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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        <corresp id="c1"><label>Correspond&#234;ncia:</label><bold>Paola Emanuela Poggio Smanio</bold> &#8226; Fleury Ponte Estaiada - Avenida Jornalista Roberto Marinho, 85, 1o andar. CEP <postal-code>04576-010</postal-code>, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil E-mail: <email>pgmsmanio@gmail.com</email> </corresp>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>123</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <elocation-id>e20260107</elocation-id>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>09</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2026</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>11</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2026</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>11</day>
          <month>02</month>
          <year>2026</year>
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        <title>Palavras-chave</title>
        <kwd>Oncologia</kwd>
        <kwd>Cardiotoxicidade</kwd>
        <kwd>Fatores de Risco</kwd>
        <kwd>Tomografia por Emiss&#227;o de P&#243;sitrons combinada &#224; Tomografia Computadorizada</kwd>
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    <sec sec-type="intro">
      <title>Introdu&#231;&#227;o</title>
      <p>O avan&#231;o das terapias oncol&#243;gicas nas &#250;ltimas d&#233;cadas transformou radicalmente o progn&#243;stico de diversos tipos de c&#226;ncer, com isto a sobrevidas dos pacientes melhorou sobremaneira. Entretanto, esse progresso trouxe um aumento significativo de complica&#231;&#245;es cardiovasculares (CV).<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Nesse cen&#225;rio, a cardio-oncologia se consolidou como um campo essencial, exigindo estrat&#233;gias diagn&#243;sticas com acur&#225;cia cada vez maior na identifica&#231;&#227;o precoce de comprometimentos cardiol&#243;gicos, ainda na fase subcl&#237;nica, al&#233;m da implementa&#231;&#227;o de planos de monitoriza&#231;&#227;o e controle adequados.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Os agentes antineopl&#225;sicos e a radioterapia transtor&#225;cica (especialmente com doses elevadas) s&#227;o respons&#225;veis por diversos efeitos t&#243;xicos CV que incluem disfun&#231;&#227;o ventricular esquerda (DVE), cardiomiopatias, miocardite, hipertens&#227;o arterial, doen&#231;a tromboemb&#243;lica, pericardite, disfun&#231;&#227;o valvar, arritmias, isquemia mioc&#225;rdica, altera&#231;&#245;es vasculares, e at&#233; acometimento do ventr&#237;culo direito, que podem ser revers&#237;veis ou permanentes.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Tradicionalmente, a investiga&#231;&#227;o da cardiotoxicidade (CTX) &#233; baseada na procura de DVE pelo ecocardiograma (Eco).<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> No entanto, este achado &#233; observado em momento relativamente tardio no <italic>continuum</italic> da les&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica, sendo diagnosticado quando os danos j&#225; s&#227;o irrevers&#237;veis.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
      <p>E, apesar do uso crescente de biomarcadores e do <italic>strain</italic> longitudinal global no Eco, ainda existe uma lacuna importante na identifica&#231;&#227;o de altera&#231;&#245;es biol&#243;gicas iniciais que precedam a disfun&#231;&#227;o mec&#226;nica.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Com maior compreens&#227;o de potenciais CTXs associadas &#224;s novas e j&#225; estabelecidas terapias oncol&#243;gicas houve avan&#231;os not&#225;veis na disponibilidade e recursos t&#233;cnicos dos exames de imagem permitindo que pacientes oncol&#243;gicos possam realizar o tratamento com seguran&#231;a, sem apresentar eventos ou permanecerem com sequelas cardiol&#243;gicas. No entanto, a uniformidade do uso e aplica&#231;&#227;o neste contexto ainda est&#225; longe de ser ideal.</p>
      <p>As t&#233;cnicas dispon&#237;veis de medicina nuclear t&#234;m sido, h&#225; muito importantes para avaliar e monitorar pacientes em tratamento oncol&#243;gico.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> Desde a ventriculografia radioisot&#243;pica, com alta reprodutibilidade, a cintilografia mioc&#225;rdica que investiga isquemia e tamb&#233;m a fun&#231;&#227;o ventricular esquerda e a cintilografia card&#237;aca com MIBG- <sup>123</sup>I, todos muito &#250;teis na identifica&#231;&#227;o e monitoramento de CTX.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
      <p>A tomografia por emiss&#227;o de p&#243;sitrons com 18F-Fluor-desoxi-glicoce (FDG) integrada com a tomografia computadorizada (FDG PET/CT) &#233; amplamente utilizada para diagn&#243;stico inicial e acompanhamento de pacientes com c&#226;ncer.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
      <p>A capta&#231;&#227;o de FDG reflete a utiliza&#231;&#227;o de glicose pelo mioc&#225;rdio que apresenta not&#225;vel flexibilidade metab&#243;lica, alternando entre a oxida&#231;&#227;o de &#225;cidos graxos e o uso da glicose como principal substrato energ&#233;tico, de acordo com alguns fatores como a dieta que antecede o exame e algumas condi&#231;&#245;es fisiopatol&#243;gicas.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Em condi&#231;&#245;es basais, quando em jejum prolongado, o cora&#231;&#227;o saud&#225;vel utiliza predominantemente &#225;cidos graxos, resultando em baixa capta&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica de FDG. Entretanto, a presen&#231;a de estresse celular, inflama&#231;&#227;o, disfun&#231;&#227;o mitocondrial, hip&#243;xia ou apoptose induz mudan&#231;a metab&#243;lica em dire&#231;&#227;o &#224; glic&#243;lise, com aumento da capta&#231;&#227;o de FDG, fato que ocorre precocemente na cascata da CTX, antes das altera&#231;&#245;es estruturais ou funcionais detect&#225;veis pelos m&#233;todos convencionais.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Os agentes antineopl&#225;sicos podem desencadear les&#245;es mioc&#225;rdicas por mecanismos distintos, por&#233;m convergentes nas altera&#231;&#245;es metab&#243;licas e inflamat&#243;rias iniciais<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Conforme recomenda&#231;&#227;o do posicionamento europeu de MN em cardio-oncologia, pacientes com maior risco de complica&#231;&#245;es CV necessitam de monitoramento precoce e cont&#237;nuo padronizado para eventos agudos e para eventuais efeitos tardios.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> Destaca como fatores de risco (FR) para CTX: predisposi&#231;&#227;o gen&#233;ticas, doen&#231;as CV pr&#233;-existentes, tratamento oncol&#243;gico pr&#233;vio, idade, presen&#231;a de FR para doen&#231;a CV, o tipo da neoplasia e do tratamento oncol&#243;gico realizado.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Estudos previamente realizados tentaram avaliar o uso do FDG PET/CT na detec&#231;&#227;o precoce de CTX, demonstrando, inclusive, verificando a associa&#231;&#227;o entre os padr&#245;es de capta&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca de FDG e os par&#226;metros metab&#243;licos na identifica&#231;&#227;o de CTX.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>&#8211;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Entretanto, estudo prospectivo multic&#234;ntrico mais recente avaliando <sup>18</sup>FDG PET/CT, <italic>strain</italic> mioc&#225;rdico e biomarcadores durante a quimioterapia em portadores de linfoma, observou que o aumento da capta&#231;&#227;o de FDG foi achado frequentemente observado, mas sem correla&#231;&#227;o com presen&#231;a de disfun&#231;&#227;o ventricular esquerda (DVE). Desta forma, a relev&#226;ncia cl&#237;nica da regula&#231;&#227;o metab&#243;lica mioc&#225;rdica ainda requer investiga&#231;&#227;o adicional.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Tamb&#233;m permanece ainda incerta a associa&#231;&#227;o entre os padr&#245;es de capta&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica de FDG e os FR CV tradicionais em pacientes oncol&#243;gicos.</p>
      <p>Ribeiro Sobrinho et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref></sup> analisaram, de forma pioneira, em grande coorte, a associa&#231;&#227;o entre padr&#245;es de capta&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica de FDG em exames oncol&#243;gicos de PET/CT e FR CV, demonstrando que sexo masculino e maior peso corporal s&#227;o preditores independentes de capta&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica, enquanto diabetes mellitus e doen&#231;a arterial coronariana se associam &#224; sua aus&#234;ncia. Esses achados podem reposicionar a capta&#231;&#227;o de FDG como um marcador metab&#243;lico CV relevante, e n&#227;o apenas como um achado incidental.</p>
      <p>Mas, ainda se faz fundamental interpretar o aumento da capta&#231;&#227;o de FDG de forma contextualizada, integrando caracter&#237;sticas cl&#237;nicas, metab&#243;licas e CV dos pacientes. A simples dicotomia entre presen&#231;a ou aus&#234;ncia de capta&#231;&#227;o pode ser entendida como a porta de entrada para uma classifica&#231;&#227;o mais ampla: desde um fen&#243;tipo metabolicamente neutro, passando por um remodelamento adaptativo potencialmente revers&#237;vel, at&#233; est&#225;gios inflamat&#243;rios e metabolicamente descompensados, associados a maior risco de DVE futura (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">Figura 1</xref>).</p>
      <fig id="f1">
        <label>Figura 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Fatores de risco para o desenvolvimento de cardiotoxicidade e fen&#243;tipos metab&#243;licos no FDG PET/CT. CV: cardiovascular.</title>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-123-01-e20260107-60107-gf01.tif"/></fig>
      <p>Em um cen&#225;rio de cardio-oncologia integrada, FDG PETCT realizado rotineiramente para pacientes oncol&#243;gicos pode fornecer informa&#231;&#245;es adicionais valiosas sobre o estado metab&#243;lico do cora&#231;&#227;o, sem aumento de custo ou exposi&#231;&#227;o adicional &#224; radia&#231;&#227;o.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
      <p>Algumas limita&#231;&#245;es devem ser consideradas, sugerindo a necessidade de estudos prospectivos futuros. O desenho retrospectivo e transversal impede infer&#234;ncias progn&#243;sticas, e a avalia&#231;&#227;o visual da capta&#231;&#227;o, embora pragm&#225;tica e alinhada &#224; pr&#225;tica cl&#237;nica, est&#225; sujeita &#224; variabilidade interobservador e &#224; influ&#234;ncia do preparo metab&#243;lico. Ainda assim, o grande tamanho amostral, a an&#225;lise multivariada e a coer&#234;ncia fisiopatol&#243;gica dos achados conferem robustez &#224;s conclus&#245;es.</p>
      <p>O principal legado deste estudo &#233; refor&#231;ar a necessidade de abandonar uma interpreta&#231;&#227;o simplista da capta&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica de FDG. A imagem metab&#243;lica deve ser entendida como parte de um <italic>continuum</italic> biol&#243;gico, integrando as caracter&#237;sticas cl&#237;nicas, os FR dos pacientes, a terapia utilizada e a vulnerabilidade mioc&#225;rdica (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">Figura 2</xref>).</p>
      <fig id="f2">
        <label>Figura 2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Estrat&#233;gia sugerida para identifica&#231;&#227;o precoce, preven&#231;&#227;o e monitoramento de cardiotoxicidade.</title>
        </caption>
        <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-123-01-e20260107-60107-gf02.tif"/></fig>
      <p>Em s&#237;ntese, o artigo publicado nesta edi&#231;&#227;o dos Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia amplia o horizonte da cardio-oncologia ao demonstrar que a capta&#231;&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica de FDG no PET/CT reflete fen&#243;tipos CV distintos, modulados por FR tradicionais. Trata-se de um passo relevante em dire&#231;&#227;o a uma abordagem metab&#243;lica da CTX associada ao tratamento oncol&#243;gico.</p>
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        <label>Minieditorial referente ao artigo:</label>
        <p>Capta&#231;&#227;o Mioc&#225;rdica de Fluordesoxiglicose-18F na Tomografia por Emiss&#227;o de P&#243;sitrons/Tomografia Computadorizada: Uma Janela para Fen&#243;tipos Cardiovasculares e Assinaturas Metab&#243;licas em Pacientes com C&#226;ncer</p>
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        <article-title>Association between Cardiac Metabolic Patterns in Oncological PET/CT and Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Contribution to the Early Investigation of Cardiotoxicity</article-title>
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            <surname>Smanio</surname>
            <given-names>Paola Emanuela Poggio</given-names>
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        <corresp id="c2"><label>Mailing Address:</label><bold>Paola Emanuela Poggio Smanio</bold> &#8226; Fleury Ponte Estaiada - Avenida Jornalista Roberto Marinho, 85, 1o andar. Postal Code <postal-code>04576-010</postal-code>, S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brazil E-mail: <email>pgmsmanio@gmail.com</email> </corresp>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Medical Oncology</kwd>
        <kwd>Cardiotoxicity</kwd>
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        <title>Introduction</title>
        <p>The advancement of cancer therapies in recent decades has radically transformed the prognosis of various types of cancer, significantly improving patient survival. However, this progress has brought a significant increase in cardiovascular (CV) complications.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
        <p>In this scenario, cardio-oncology has established itself as an essential field, requiring diagnostic strategies with ever-increasing accuracy in the early identification of cardiological impairments, even in the subclinical phase, in addition to the implementation of appropriate monitoring and control plans.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Antineoplastic agents and transthoracic radiotherapy (especially at high doses) are responsible for several toxic CV effects, including left ventricular dysfunction (LVD), cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, hypertension, thromboembolic disease, pericarditis, valvular dysfunction, arrhythmias, myocardial ischemia, vascular changes, and even right ventricular involvement, which may be reversible or permanent.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Traditionally, cardiotoxicity (CTX) investigation is based on the search for left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) by echocardiography (Echo).<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup> However, this finding is observed relatively late in the <italic>continuum</italic> of myocardial injury, being diagnosed when the damage is already irreversible.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">3</xref></sup></p>
        <p>And, despite the increasing use of biomarkers and global longitudinal <italic>strain</italic> in Echo, there is still a significant gap in the identification of early biological changes that precede mechanical dysfunction.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
        <p>With a greater understanding of potential CTXs associated with new and established cancer therapies, there have been remarkable advances in the availability and technical resources of imaging exams, allowing cancer patients to undergo treatment safely, without experiencing events or remaining with cardiologic sequelae. However, the uniformity of use and application in this context is still far from ideal.</p>
        <p>Available nuclear medicine (NM) techniques have long been important for evaluating and monitoring patients undergoing cancer treatment.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref></sup> From radioisotopic ventriculography, with high reproducibility, to myocardial scintigraphy, which investigates ischemia and also left ventricular function, and cardiac scintigraphy with MIBG-<sup>123</sup>I, all are very useful in the identification and monitoring of CTX.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">4</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Positron emission tomography with 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) integrated with computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is widely used for initial diagnosis and follow-up of cancer patients.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
        <p>FDG uptake reflects the use of glucose by the myocardium, which exhibits remarkable metabolic flexibility, alternating between fatty acid oxidation and the use of glucose as the main energy substrate, according to factors such as the diet preceding the study and some pathophysiological conditions.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Under basal conditions, during prolonged fasting, a healthy heart predominantly uses fatty acids, resulting in low myocardial FDG uptake. However, the presence of cellular stress, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, hypoxia, or apoptosis induces a metabolic shift toward glycolysis, with increased FDG uptake, which occurs early in the CTX cascade, before structural or functional changes detectable by conventional methods.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">7</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Antineoplastic agents can trigger myocardial lesions through distinct mechanisms, but are convergent in the initial metabolic and inflammatory changes.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
        <p>As recommended by the European MN position statement in cardio-oncology, patients at higher risk of CV complications require early and continuous standardized monitoring for acute events and possible late effects.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup> It highlights the following as risk factors (RF) for CTX: genetic predisposition, pre-existing CV diseases, previous cancer treatment, age, presence of RF for CV disease, the type of cancerand cancer treatment performed.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Some previously conducted studies have attempted to evaluate the use of FDG PET/CT in the early detection of CTX, demonstrating, among other things, the association between cardiac FDG uptake patterns and metabolic parameters in the identification of CTX.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">6</xref>&#8211;<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">8</xref></sup></p>
        <p>However, a more recent prospective multicenter study evaluating <sup>18</sup>FDG PET/CT, myocardial <italic>strain</italic>, and biomarkers during chemotherapy in lymphoma patients observed that increased FDG uptake was a frequently observed finding, but without correlation with the presence of left ventricular dysfunction (LVD). Thus, the clinical relevance of myocardial metabolic regulation still requires further investigation.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">9</xref></sup></p>
        <p>The association between myocardial FDG uptake patterns and traditional CVRFs in cancer patients also remains uncertain.</p>
        <p>Ribeiro Sobrinho et al.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref></sup> pioneered a large cohort study analyzing the association between myocardial FDG uptake patterns in oncological PET/CT scans and CV FR, demonstrating that male sex and higher body weight are independent predictors of myocardial uptake, while diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease are associated with its absence. These findings may reposition FDG uptake as a relevant CV metabolic marker, and not just as an incidental finding.</p>
        <p>However, it is still essential to interpret the increase in FDG uptake in a contextualized way, integrating the clinical, metabolic, and CV characteristics of patients. The simple dichotomy between the presence or absence of uptake can be understood as the gateway to a broader classification: from a metabolically neutral phenotype, through a potentially reversible adaptive remodeling, to inflammatory and metabolically decompensated stages, associated with a higher risk of future DVE (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">Figure 1</xref>).</p>
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          <label>Figure 1</label>
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            <title>Risk factors for the development of CTX and metabolic phenotypes in FDG PET/CT.</title>
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          <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-123-01-e20260107-60107-gf01-en.tif"/></fig>
        <p>In an integrated cardio-oncology setting, routinely performed FDG PETCT for cancer patients can provide valuable additional information about the metabolic state of the heart, without increased cost or additional radiation exposure.<sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">5</xref></sup></p>
        <p>Some limitations should be considered, suggesting the need for future prospective studies. The retrospective and cross-sectional design prevents prognostic inferences, and the visual assessment of uptake, although pragmatic and aligned with clinical practice, is subject to interobserver variability and the influence of metabolic preparation. Still, the large sample size, multivariate analysis, and pathophysiological consistency of the findings lend robustness to the conclusions.</p>
        <p>The main legacy of this study is to reinforce the need to abandon a simplistic interpretation of myocardial FDG uptake. Metabolic imaging should be understood as part of a biological <italic>continuum</italic>, integrating clinical characteristics, patient RF, the therapy used, and myocardial vulnerability (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">Figure 2</xref>)..</p>
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          <label>Figure 2</label>
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            <title>Suggested strategy for early identification, prevention, and monitoring of CTX.</title>
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          <graphic xlink:href="1678-4170-abc-123-01-e20260107-60107-gf02-en.tif"/></fig>
        <p>In summary, the article published in this issue of the <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</italic> broadens the horizon of cardio-oncology by demonstrating that myocardial FDG uptake on PET/CT reflects distinct CV phenotypes, modulated by traditional RF. This is a significant step towards a metabolic approach to CTX associated with cancer treatment.</p>
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          <p>Myocardial Uptake of 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose on Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography: A Window into Cardiovascular Phenotypes and Metabolic Signatures in Patients with Cancer</p>
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