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  1. Evolving the Understanding of Quantifying Tricuspid Regurgitation: From Doppler Assumptions to Volumetric Accuracy

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  2. Quantitative tricuspid regurgitation assessment by cardiac magnetic resonance: novel insights

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, October 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  3. Comparison of dual-energy iodine and standard subtraction methods for myocardial extracellular volume quantification using cardiac computed tomography

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  4. Key takeaways from the 2025 expert consensus document on cardiac computed tomography for prosthetic heart valve assessment

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  5. Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography to Guide Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Expert Opinion from a SCAI/SCCT Roundtable

    Article • Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, June 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  6. Sex differences in pre- and post-surgical left ventricular remodelling and outcomes in primary mitral regurgitation

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, May 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  7. Development and Validation of Imaging‐Free Myocardial Fibrosis Prediction Models, Association with Outcomes, and Sample Size Estimation for Phase 3 Trials

    Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, April 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  8. 3D Echocardiographic and CMR Imaging for the Assessment of Right Ventricular Function and Tricuspid Regurgitation Severity

    Article • Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, April 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  9. Understanding Right Heart Flow: Implications for Interatrial Shunt Device Therapy in Heart Failure

    Article • Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante, Dr Pankaj Garg

  10. Acute Myocarditis as the Initial Presentation of Desmoplakin Mutation – Broadening the Differential Diagnosis

    Article • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, January 2024, Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  11. Miocardite Aguda como Apresentação Inicial da Mutação da Desmoplaquina – Ampliando o Diagnóstico Diferencial

    Article • Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, January 2024, Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  12. Arrhythmic mitral valve prolapse and mitral annular disjunction: pathophysiology, risk stratification, and management

    Article • European Heart Journal, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  13. Rasamsonia argillacea species complex myocarditis in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease

    Article • Radiology Case Reports, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  14. Right Ventricular Function and Prognosis in Patients with Low-Flow, Low-Gradient Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  15. A pathoanatomic approach to the management of mitral regurgitation

    Article • Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  16. Diastolic function improvement is associated with favourable outcomes in patients with acute non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy: insights from the multicentre IMAC-2 trial

    Article • European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, November 2015, European Society of Cardiology

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  17. Watchful waiting in aortic stenosis: are we ready for individualizing the risk assessment?

    Article • European Heart Journal, November 2015, European Society of Cardiology

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  18. TCT-662 Prognostic Importance Of Pulmonary Hypertension Etiology By Invasive Hemodynamics In Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  19. Acute cocaine myocarditis: a word of caution

    Article • European Heart Journal, February 2015, European Society of Cardiology

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  20. The association of global longitudinal and global circumferential strain with ejection fraction in patients with aortic stenosis and increased left ventricular mass: a feature tracking CMR study

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  21. Meta-analysis of coronary computed tomography angiography versus standard of care strategy for the evaluation of low risk chest pain: Are randomized controlled trials and cohort studies showing the same evidence?

    Article • International Journal of Cardiology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  22. Is there a role for diastolic function assessment in era of delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging?

    Article • American Heart Journal, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  23. HEMODYNAMIC ASSESSMENT OF LOW GRADIENT AORTIC STENOSIS WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  24. Global left ventricular remodeling, extent of inferior wall infarct, and mitral valve geometry are important predictors of mitral regurgitation severity than total infarct size in advanced ischemic cardiomyopathy

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  25. From Headache to Heartache

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  26. Feature tracking measurement of dyssynchrony from cardiovascular magnetic resonance cine acquisitions: comparison with echocardiographic speckle tracking

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  27. Role of Cross-Sectional Imaging for Structural Heart Disease Interventions

    Article • Cardiology Clinics, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante, Prof. Paul ` Schoenhagen, Paul Schoenhagen

  28. An Unexpected Fate

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante, Prof. Paul ` Schoenhagen, Paul Schoenhagen

  29. BARIATRIC SURGERY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LEFT VENTRICULAR EJECTION FRACTION IMPROVEMENT IN OBESE PATIENTS WITH SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  30. IMPACT OF MITRAL REGURGITATION ON MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY AND SUBSEQUENT INCOMPLETE REVASCULARIZATION IN THE SETTING OF JEOPARDIZED MYOCARDIUM

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  31. Two-Dimensional Longitudinal Strain Assessment in the Presence of Myocardial Contrast Agents Is Only Feasible with Speckle-Tracking after Microbubble Destruction

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  32. Association of Epicardial Fat, Hypertension, Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease, and Metabolic Syndrome With Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction

    Article • The American Journal of Cardiology, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante, Prof. Paul ` Schoenhagen, Paul Schoenhagen

  33. Role of Echocardiography in Percutaneous Mitral Valve Interventions

    Article • JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  34. Diversity of Mitral Valve Abnormalities in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Article • Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  35. A New Diagnosis of Severe Aortic Coarctation Presenting in Adult Life

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  36. Regadenoson is a safe and well-tolerated pharmacological stress agent for myocardial perfusion imaging in post-heart transplant patients

    Article • Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  37. Aortic Stiffness

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  38. REGIONAL LV AND RV FREE WALL LONGITUDINAL STRAIN BY SPECKLE TRACKING IS REDUCED IN PATIENTS WITH CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS: AN MRI CORRELATION STUDY

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  39. Assessing Risk and Predicting Outcomes in Coronary Artery Disease: Physiology, Anatomy, or Biology?

    Article • Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  40. Role of multimodality imaging in ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy

    Article • Heart Failure Reviews, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  41. Isolated Right Ventricular Infarct Presenting as Ventricular Fibrillation Arrest and Confirmed by Delayed-Enhancement Cardiac MRI

    Article • Heart Lung and Circulation, October 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  42. VALUE OF FAMILY HISTORY OF PREMATURE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE AS A PREDICTOR OF OBSTRUCTIVE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE ON CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY, THE ACIC REGISTRY

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  43. IS STRESS MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING WITH REGADENOSON, A NEW PHARMACOLOGIC STRESS AGENT, SAFE IN ORTHOTOPIC HEART TRANSPLANT PATIENTS? FIRST REPORT OF REGADENOSON, A SELECTIVE A2A RECEPTOR AGONIST IN THE HEART TRANSPLANT POPULATION

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, March 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  44. EVEREST study: Efficacy of Vasopressin Antagonism in Heart Failure Outcome Study with Tolvaptan

    Article • Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, November 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  45. The Relationship Between Spontaneous Echocontrast, Transesophageal Echocardiographic Parameters, and Blood Hemoglobin Levels

    Article • Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  46. Renal Response After High-Dose Melphalan and Stem Cell Transplantation Is a Favorable Marker in Patients With Primary Systemic Amyloidosis

    Article • American Journal of Kidney Diseases, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  47. Effects of l-arginine-enriched total enteral nutrition on body weight gain, tumor growth, and in vivo concentrations of blood and tissue metabolites in rats inoculated with Walker tumor in the kidney

    Article • Nutrition, February 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante

  48. Modelo de tumor experimental em rim de ratos

    Article • Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, February 2002, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Joao L Cavalcante