Background: The current challenge of cardiovascular surgery (CVS) is to improve the
outcomes in increasingly severe patients. In this respect, continuous quality improvement …

Background: Cardiovascular surgery has been undergoing transformations due to the
advancement of percutaneous techniques, clinical treatment and primary prevention …

In the “Brief Communications” section of this issue of The Journal there is a report on
hospital mortality after cardiac surgery in Brazil. 1 An analysis of the database of the …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now a leading cause of death in the develop-ing world,
where, because of demographic shifts of the population age profile, a staggering additional …

As Brazil is inserting itself in the international community of Cardiovascular Surgery for its full
recognition, some steps need to be taken to reach the quality standards of first world …

Background Brazil is an upper middle‐income country in South America with the world's
sixth largest population. Despite great advances in health‐care services and cardiac …

Editorial he recent publication of the statistics of the Unified Health System Database
(DATASUL) has shown that cardiovascular surgery outcomes in patients who underwent …

Background More than 1 million cardiac surgical procedures are estimated to occur yearly.
Little is known about country-level procedural estimates and volumes needed to provide …

The Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular (SBCCV) has taken great pleasure
and pride in announcing that the Brazilian Registry of Cardiovascular Surgery in Adults (The …

The cardiovascular surgery was and has been intensely scrutinized and evaluated. Cardiac
surgeons have, in turn, consistently directed the efforts in collecting, analyzing and applying …