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      <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>
        <publisher-loc>S&#227;o Paulo, SP, Brazil</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1590/S0066-782X2008001500013</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Relato de Caso</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Terapia de ressincroniza&#231;&#227;o melhora a capta&#231;&#227;o do MIBI-99mTc e a fun&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Brand&#227;o</surname>
            <given-names>Simone Cristina Soares</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Giorgi</surname>
            <given-names>Maria Clementina</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nishioka</surname>
            <given-names>Silvana D'Orio</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Martinelli Filho</surname>
            <given-names>Martino</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Soares Jr.</surname>
            <given-names>Jos&#233;</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01"/>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Meneghetti</surname>
            <given-names>Jos&#233; Cl&#225;udio</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff01">
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">S&#227;o Paulo</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo</institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv1">Faculdade de Medicina </institution>
        <institution content-type="orgdiv2">Hospital das Clinicas</institution>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
      </aff>
      <pub-date date-type="collection" publication-format="electronic">
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>91</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>e25</fpage>
      <lpage>e28</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>26</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2007</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>07</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2007</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>26</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2007</year>
        </date>
      </history>
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          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.</license-p>
        </license>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Este caso mostra a melhora proporcionada pela terapia de ressincroniza&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca (TRC) sobre a perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica e o desempenho do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo (VE) avaliados pela cintilografia de perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica com MIBI-99mTc sincronizada ao eletrocardiograma. Paciente portadora de miocardiopatia dilatada idiop&#225;tica, bloqueio de ramo esquerdo e insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca refrat&#225;ria ao tratamento medicamentoso otimizado. Ap&#243;s TRC, foi observada melhora cl&#237;nica, redu&#231;&#227;o da dura&#231;&#227;o do QRS e melhora na perfus&#227;o das paredes anterior e &#226;ntero-septal que se encontravam previamente hipoperfundidas. Houve tamb&#233;m redu&#231;&#227;o dos volumes diast&#243;lico e sist&#243;lico finais e aumento da fra&#231;&#227;o de eje&#231;&#227;o do VE.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica</kwd>
        <kwd>fun&#231;&#227;o ventricular esquerda</kwd>
        <kwd>bloqueio de ramo esquerdo</kwd>
        <kwd>cardiomiopatia dilatada</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2008</year>
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  <body>
    <p>
      <bold>RELATO DE CASO</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Terapia de ressincroniza&#231;&#227;o melhora a capta&#231;&#227;o do MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc e a fun&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca</bold>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Simone Cristina Soares Brand&#227;o; Maria Clementina Giorgi; Silvana D'Orio Nishioka; Martino Martinelli Filho; Jos&#233; Soares Jr.; Jos&#233; Cl&#225;udio Meneghetti </bold>
    </p>
    <p>Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o (InCor) - Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo (HCFMUSP), S&#227;o Paulo - SP - Brasil</p>
    <p>
      <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="back">Correspond&#234;ncia</xref>
    </p>
    <p>
      <bold>RESUMO</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Este caso mostra a melhora proporcionada pela terapia de ressincroniza&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca (TRC) sobre a perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica e o desempenho do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo (VE) avaliados pela cintilografia de perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica com MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc sincronizada ao eletrocardiograma. Paciente portadora de miocardiopatia dilatada idiop&#225;tica, bloqueio de ramo esquerdo e insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca refrat&#225;ria ao tratamento medicamentoso otimizado. Ap&#243;s TRC, foi observada melhora cl&#237;nica, redu&#231;&#227;o da dura&#231;&#227;o do QRS e melhora na perfus&#227;o das paredes anterior e &#226;ntero-septal que se encontravam previamente hipoperfundidas. Houve tamb&#233;m redu&#231;&#227;o dos volumes diast&#243;lico e sist&#243;lico finais e aumento da fra&#231;&#227;o de eje&#231;&#227;o do VE. </p>
    <p><bold>Palavras-chave: </bold> Perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica, fun&#231;&#227;o ventricular esquerda, bloqueio de ramo esquerdo, cardiomiopatia dilatada. </p>
    <p>
      <bold>Introdu&#231;&#227;o</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Nos &#250;ltimos anos, a terapia de ressincroniza&#231;&#227;o card&#237;aca (TRC) vem sendo considerada importante terapia adjunta na insufici&#234;ncia card&#237;aca (IC) refrat&#225;ria ao tratamento medicamentoso otimizado e tem proporcionado inquestion&#225;veis benef&#237;cios para muitos pacientes. Na maioria dos pacientes com miocardiopatia dilatada, o prolongamento do complexo QRS ao eletrocardiograma (ECG) se apresenta como bloqueio de ramo esquerdo (BRE)<sup>1,2</sup>. Ele n&#227;o &#233; apenas um marcador de progress&#227;o de doen&#231;a, mas tamb&#233;m pode levar a dissincronia ventricular<sup>3,4</sup>.</p>
    <p>V&#225;rios estudos t&#234;m demonstrado os benef&#237;cios da TRC sobre a hemodin&#226;mica cardiovascular; entretanto, pouco tem sido descrito sobre seus efeitos sobre a perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica. Neste relato de caso foi avaliado o comportamento da perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica e da fun&#231;&#227;o do ventr&#237;culo esquerdo (VE) por meio da cintilografia de perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica com MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc ao repouso e ap&#243;s estresse farmacol&#243;gico com dipiridamol (CPM) sincronizada ao ECG (GS) pr&#233; e tr&#234;s meses p&#243;s-TRC.</p>
    <p>
      <bold>Relato do Caso</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Paciente do sexo feminino, 64 anos, portadora de miocardiopatia dilatada idiop&#225;tica e IC classe funcional III da <italic>New York Heart Association</italic>, apesar do tratamento medicamentoso m&#225;ximo tolerado para IC, e com BRE ao ECG, foi submetida ao implante de marcapasso atriobiventricular. Pr&#233;-TRC, as imagens da CPM mostraram hipocapta&#231;&#227;o persistente do radiof&#225;rmaco, de grau moderado a acentuado, nas paredes anterior e &#226;ntero-septal do VE (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">fig. 1</xref>). Ao GS, o volume diast&#243;lico final (VDF) foi de 257 ml, o volume sist&#243;lico final (VSF) de 186 ml, a fra&#231;&#227;o de eje&#231;&#227;o do VE (FEVE) ao repouso de 27% (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">fig. 1</xref>). Tr&#234;s meses p&#243;s-TRC, a paciente apresentava-se em classe funcional I de IC, a dura&#231;&#227;o do QRS diminuiu de 180 para 120 ms (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">fig. 2</xref>) e a CPM mostrou uma melhora importante na perfus&#227;o das paredes anterior e &#226;ntero-septal do VE (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">fig. 1</xref>). Ao GS, foi observada redu&#231;&#227;o do VDF para 150 ml e do VSF para 86 ml e aumento da FEVE ao repouso para 43% (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">fig. 1</xref>).</p>
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      <fig id="f2">
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    <p>
      <bold>Discuss&#227;o</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Este caso mostra por meio das imagens da CPM sincronizadas ao ECG os benef&#237;cios proporcionados pela TRC sobre a perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica e o desempenho card&#237;aco, com importante remodelamento reverso do VE. A CPM &#233; uma valiosa ferramenta na avalia&#231;&#227;o n&#227;o-invasiva da perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica relativa e da fun&#231;&#227;o regional e global do VE, quando as imagens s&#227;o sincronizadas ao ECG. A base fisiol&#243;gica para a redistribui&#231;&#227;o do fluxo sang&#252;&#237;neo coron&#225;rio ap&#243;s a mudan&#231;a no padr&#227;o de ativa&#231;&#227;o el&#233;trica do VE &#233; parcialmente compreendida. Muitos pacientes com BRE apresentam &#225;reas de hipoperfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica, principalmente na parede septal, n&#227;o relacionadas &#224; doen&#231;a coron&#225;ria obstrutiva<sup>5,6</sup>.</p>
    <p>A perfus&#227;o mioc&#225;rdica &#233; um processo predominantemente diast&#243;lico. A dissincronia card&#237;aca reduz a di&#225;stole, prolongando o tempo de tens&#227;o durante o ciclo card&#237;aco, e encurtando o tempo de enchimento do VE<sup>6</sup>. Este &#250;ltimo fen&#244;meno &#233; at&#233; mais pronunciado em pacientes com miocardiopatia dilatada<sup>7</sup>. Al&#233;m do mais, o suprimento do fluxo sang&#252;&#237;neo mioc&#225;rdico pode ser interrompido na contra&#231;&#227;o ass&#237;ncrona, j&#225; que em algumas regi&#245;es a contra&#231;&#227;o se inicia ou &#233; continuada na di&#225;stole, quando a maior parte do fluxo coron&#225;rio est&#225; ocorrendo. Entretanto, essa pode n&#227;o ser a &#250;nica explica&#231;&#227;o, pois as regi&#245;es ativadas tardiamente, as quais ainda est&#227;o se contraindo na di&#225;stole precoce, t&#234;m seu fluxo sang&#252;&#237;neo aumentado<sup>8</sup>. O grau de perfus&#227;o para uma parede ventricular pode ser reflexo de sua carga de trabalho. A ativa&#231;&#227;o ass&#237;ncrona leva &#224; redu&#231;&#227;o na for&#231;a contr&#225;til nas regi&#245;es mioc&#225;rdicas ativadas precocemente e aumento nas regi&#245;es ativadas tardiamente<sup>5,6</sup>.</p>
    <p>Especula-se que a rela&#231;&#227;o anormal entre contra&#231;&#227;o/relaxamento regional nos pacientes com dissincronia ventricular provoque anormalidade no estresse de parede com distribui&#231;&#227;o de fluxo sang&#252;&#237;neo local alterada em raz&#227;o de uma adapta&#231;&#227;o metab&#243;lica do fluxo &#224;s diferen&#231;as regionais na carga de trabalho<sup>5</sup>. A disfun&#231;&#227;o endotelial com preju&#237;zo ao fluxo coron&#225;rio de reserva pode ser outro mecanismo envolvido na altera&#231;&#227;o do fluxo ocasionado pela dissincronia eletromec&#226;nica card&#237;aca<sup>6</sup>. A diminui&#231;&#227;o do fluxo sang&#252;&#237;neo mioc&#225;rdico de reserva na IC, independentemente da sua causa, pode causar per&#237;odos intermitentes de isquemia, levando a uma disfun&#231;&#227;o cr&#244;nica do VE, a qual est&#225; associada a um progn&#243;stico ruim<sup>9</sup>. Logo, a melhora da perfus&#227;o, especialmente nas paredes anterior e septal do VE, por meio da TRC poderia induzir a recupera&#231;&#227;o da fun&#231;&#227;o e melhora do progn&#243;stico<sup>10</sup>.</p>
    <p>Apesar dos resultados observados neste caso cl&#237;nico e dos estudos j&#225; relatados na literatura, mais evid&#234;ncias s&#227;o necess&#225;rias para confirmar se as modifica&#231;&#245;es desencadeadas pela TRC na capta&#231;&#227;o do MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc est&#227;o de fato associadas ao significante aumento da FEVE e redu&#231;&#227;o do remodelamento ventricular esquerdo que ocorrem em muitos pacientes submetidos a essa terapia.</p>
    <p>
      <bold>Potencial Conflito de Interesses</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Declaro n&#227;o haver conflito de interesses pertinentes.</p>
    <p>
      <bold>Fontes de Financiamento</bold>
    </p>
    <p>O presente estudo foi parcialmente financiado por FAPESP.</p>
    <p>
      <bold>Vincula&#231;&#227;o Acad&#234;mica</bold>
    </p>
    <p>Este artigo &#233; parte de tese de Doutorado de Simone Cristina Soares Brand&#227;o pelo Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o (INCOR) do Hospital das Cl&#237;nicas da USP.</p>
    <p>
      <fn id="back" fn-type="corresp">
        <p>Correspond&#234;ncia:</p>
        <p> Simone Cristina Soares Brand&#227;o </p>
        <p> Rua Capote Valente, 462 / 141 </p>
        <p> 05409-001- Pinheiros - S&#227;o Paulo, SP - Brasil </p>
        <p> E-mail: </p>
        <p>
          <email xlink:href="simonecordis@cardiol.br">simonecordis@cardiol.br</email>
        </p>
      </fn>
    </p>
    <p>Artigo recebido 07/12/07; revisado recebido em 26/12/07; aceito em 26/12/07.</p>
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          <subject>Case Reports</subject>
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        <article-title xml:lang="en">Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves the uptake of MIBI-99mTc and cardiac function</article-title>
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      <abstract xml:lang="en">
        <p>This case shows the improvement promoted by cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on myocardial perfusion and left ventricular (LV) performance assessed by gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. The patient had idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, left bundle branch block and severe heart failure despite optimized medical treatment. After CRT, clinical improvement, QRS reduction and improvement of previously hypoperfused anterior and septal walls were observed. There was also decrease in LV end-diastolic and systolic volumes and increase in LV ejection fraction.</p>
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        <kwd>ventricular function</kwd>
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        <kwd>dilated cardiomyopathy</kwd>
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      <p>
        <bold>CASE REPORT</bold>
      </p>
      <p>
        <fn id="top10-body2">
          <label>
            <bold>Cardiac resynchronization therapy improves the uptake of MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc and cardiac function</bold>
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          <p>
            <bold>Simone Cristina Soares Brand&#227;o; Maria Clementina Giorgi; Silvana D'Orio Nishioka; Martino Martinelli Filho; Jos&#233; Soares Jr.; Jos&#233; Cl&#225;udio Meneghetti </bold>
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      <p>Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o (InCor) - Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S&#227;o Paulo (HCFMUSP), S&#227;o Paulo - SP - Brazil</p>
      <p>Mailing Address</p>
      <p>
        <bold>ABSTRACT</bold>
      </p>
      <p>This case shows the improvement promoted by cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on myocardial perfusion and left ventricular (LV) performance assessed by gated myocardial perfusion scintigraphy. The patient had idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, left bundle branch block and severe heart failure despite optimized medical treatment. After CRT, clinical improvement, QRS reduction and improvement of previously hypoperfused anterior and septal walls were observed. There was also decrease in LV end-diastolic and systolic volumes and increase in LV ejection fraction.</p>
      <p><bold>Key words:</bold> Myocardial perfusion; ventricular function, left ventricular function and dilated cardiomyopathy.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Introduction</bold>
      </p>
      <p>In recent years, the cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been considered an important adjunct therapy in heart failure (HF) refractory to optimized drug treatment and it has shown to be beneficial to many patients. In most patients with dilated myocardiopathy, the increase of the QRS complex duration at the electrocardiogram (ECG) presents as a left bundle branch block (LBBB)<sup>1,2</sup> . This is not only a marker of disease progression, but it can also lead to ventricular dyssynchrony<sup>3,4</sup>.</p>
      <p>Several studies have demonstrated the benefits of CRT on cardiovascular hemodynamics; however, little has been described on its effects on myocardial perfusion. In this case report, the behavior of myocardial perfusion and left ventricle (LV) function was evaluated by myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) with MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc at rest and after pharmacological stress with dipyridamole, gated to ECG (GS) pre- and three months after CRT.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Case Report</bold>
      </p>
      <p>A 64-year-old female patient, who presented idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and functional class III HF according to the New York Heart Association, despite optimized drug therapy for HF and LBBB at the ECG, was submitted to atrial-biventricular pacemaker implant. Pre-CRT, MPS images showed persistent low uptake of MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc, of moderate to severe degree, in the anterior and anteroseptal walls of the LV, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="en_13f1-body2">Figure 1</xref>. At GS, the end-diastolic volume (EDV) was 257 mL; the end-systolic volume (ESV) was 186 mL; the LV ejection fraction (LVEF) at rest was 27%, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="en_13f1-body2">Figure 1</xref>. Three months after the CRT, the patient presented Functional Class I, QRS duration decreased from 180 to 120 ms (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="en_13f2-body2">Figure 2</xref>) and MPS showed a significant improvement in perfusion of the anterior and anteroseptal walls of the LV, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="en_13f1-body2">Figure 1</xref>. At GS, a decrease in EDV to 150 mL and ESV to 86 mL was observed as well as LVEF at rest increase to 43%, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="en_13f1-body2">Figure 1</xref>.</p>
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      <p>
        <bold>Discussion</bold>
      </p>
      <p>The present case shows, through MPS images gated to ECG, the benefits provided by the CRT on myocardial perfusion and cardiac performance, with important LV reverse remodeling. The MPS is a valuable tool for the non-invasive evaluation of relative myocardial perfusion and of the regional and global LV function, when the images are gated to ECG. The physiological basis for the redistribution of the coronary blood flow after the change in the pattern of electrical activation of the LV is partially understood. Many patients with LBBB present areas of myocardial hypoperfusion, mainly in the septal wall, which are not related to obstructive coronary disease<sup>5,6</sup>. The myocardial perfusion is a predominantly diastolic process. The cardiac dyssynchrony reduces diastole, prolonging the stress time during the cardiac cycle, decreasing the LV filling time<sup>6</sup>. This last phenomenon is even more prominent in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy<sup>7</sup>. Additionally, the myocardial blood flow supply can be interrupted at the asynchronous contraction, as in some regions the contraction starts or is continued at the diastole, when most of the coronary blood flow is occurring. However, this might not be the only explanation, since the delayed activated regions, which are still contracting in early diastole, have their blood flow increased<sup>8</sup>.</p>
      <p>The degree of perfusion for a ventricular wall can be the reflex of its workload. The asynchronous activation leads to the decrease in the contractile force in the early activated myocardial regions and increase in the delayed activated ones<sup>5,6</sup>. It is speculated that the abnormal relation between regional contraction/relaxation in patients with ventricular dyssynchrony causes abnormalities in wall stress with an altered local distribution of blood flow due to a metabolic adaptation of the flow to the regional differences in the workload<sup>5</sup>. The endothelial dysfunction with impairment of the coronary flow reserve can be another mechanism involved in the flow alteration caused by the electromechanical cardiac dyssynchrony<sup>6</sup>.</p>
      <p>The decrease in myocardial blood flow reserve in HF, regardless of its cause, can generate intermittent periods of ischemia, leading to a chronic LV dysfunction, which is associated with a poor prognosis<sup>9</sup>. Thus, the perfusion improvement, especially in the anterior and septal walls of the LV through CRT can induce the recovery of the function and improve the prognosis<sup>10</sup>.</p>
      <p>However, in spite of the results observed in the present clinical case and the previously reported studies in the literature, more evidence is needed to confirm whether the modifications triggered by the CRT in the uptake of MIBI-<sup>99m</sup>Tc are in fact associated with a significant increase in LVEF and decrease in the LV remodeling, which occur in many patients submitted to this therapy.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Potential Conflict of Interest</bold>
      </p>
      <p>No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Sources of Funding</bold>
      </p>
      <p>This study was partially funded by FAPESP.</p>
      <p>
        <bold>Study Association</bold>
      </p>
      <p>This article is part of the thesis of doctoral submitted by Simone Cristina Soares Brand&#227;o, from Instituto do Cora&#231;&#227;o (INCOR) do Hospital das Cl&#237;nicas da USP.</p>
      <p>
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