The mural painted by the visual artist Flávio Tavares for the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC), The Heart of the Tropics, is an eloquent witness of his unique talent as a painter ( ). The mural portrays the development of Brazilian cardiology. It comprises three juxtaposed acrylic-on-canvas panels, measuring 6.30m of length and 1.80m of height, with real and imaginary characters illustrating more than one century of the practice of cardiology in the largest nation of the tropics. Similarly to […]

The essence of geriatric cardiology Because it is a recent and not widespread specialty, Geriatric Cardiology is often confused with Geriatrics that is practiced by a cardiologist or simply with Cardiology that is applied to elderly patients. Although this is part of the discipline’s core, it does not represent the whole picture. It would be more adequate to define it as integrated and age-adequate cardiovascular care, centered on the patients and their functionalities – a concept previously presented by our […]

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Training in structural heart disease imaging Although training in multi-modality imaging has been well outlined, there are no specific training guidelines and/or requirements for SHD imagers as demonstrated by the results of a recent European survey. Some of the challenges currently faced by cardiology fellows who look for SHD imaging training include finding training centers with enough high-risk clinical volume and exposure to a variety of high-risk procedures so they can train beyond traditional TAVR procedures. This brings an inevitable […]