INFORMAÇÃO/FORMAÇÃO

Revista Portuguesa de
Cardiologia
Portuguese Journal of Cardiology www.revportcardiol.org

Volume 31. Number 6. June 2012
Regular issues and supplements referred in Index Medicus and Medline since January 1988 (Vol. 7)
CONTENTS Original Articles
Intracardiac echocardiography imaging for device closure of atrial septal defects – A single-center experience
Luís Seca, Romeu Cação, Joana Silva, Rui Providência, Paula Mota, Marco Costa, António Leitão Marques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Intracardiac echocardiography in structural heart disease: Current prospects
Lídia de Sousa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Elevated HDL is the main negative risk factor for coronary artery disease in the elderly patient with calcific aortic valve disease
Álvaro Donas-Botto Bordalo, Ângelo Lucas Nobre, Manuel Dantas, João Cravino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 415 Review Article
Hypertension in pregnancy:The current state of the art
Sérgio Barra,Maria do Carmo Cachulo,Rui Providência,António Leitão-Marques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
Case Reports
Coronary artery bypass after Kawasaki disease
Vera Santos, Ana Sofia Simões, Ana Teixeira, Miguel Abecasis, Marília Loureiro, Rui Anjos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm:The diagnostic contribution of different non-invasive imaging modalities
Sílvia Marta Oliveira, Paula Dias, Teresa Pinho, Cristina Gavina, Pedro Bernardo Almeida, António J. Madureira, Paulo Pinho,
Isabel Ramos, Maria Júlia Maciel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . 439
Loeffler’s endocarditis – a case report
Ricardo Faria,Walter Santos,Vasco Marques,Nuno Marques,NélsonTavares,Veloso Gomes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... . 445
Fungal endocarditis with central and peripheral embolization: Case report
Sílvia Ribeiro,António Gaspar,AntónioAssunção,José PinheiroTorres,PedroAzevedo,Luís Basto,Paulo Pinho,Adelino Correia .... ... 449
Anomalous origin of left coronary artery:A malignant interarterial variant with a benign clinical course
Maria Salomé Carvalho, Pedro de Araújo Gonçalves, Hugo Marques, Pedro Jerónimo de Sousa, Rita Calé, Hélder Dores, Daniel Ferreira, Francisco Pereira Machado,Ana Aleixo, Miguel Mota Carmo, José Roquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Left ventricular aneurysm and differential diagnosis with pseudoaneurysm
José Aguiar, Maria del Mar Barba, Juan Alba Gil, Jaquelina Caetano, António Ferreira, Ângelo Nobre, João Cravino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Images in Cardiology
Hemoptysis as the presenting symptom in cardiac sarcoma
Itziar Solla-Ruiz, Iñaki Villanueva-Benito, M. Begoña Iglesias-Rodriguez,Vanesa Asorey-Veiga, Subhi R.Yas, Miguel A. Pereira-Loureiro . . . . 463
Pulmonary dissection during diagnostic pulmonary angiography
Rui Baptista,Graça Castro,António Marinho da Silva,LuísA.Providência . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
Recommended Article of the Month
Comment on «Baseline characteristics and follow-up in patients with normal haemodynamics versus borderline mean pulmonary arterial pressure in systemic sclerosis: results from the PHAROS registry»
Graça Castro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467