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Doctor Valeria Pereira

Heart Institute of the University of Sao Paulo (InCor), Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology
Heart Failure Association

A clinical and research cardiologist that added echocardiography in her daily work and research in many areas of cardiology, mainly in topics related to hypertension, heart failure, and ischemic heart disease. In the last years, the interest has emerged linking these risk factors, heart function, and cognitive disorders, evaluated by a software that can be used by tablets, developed by the cognitive disorder group of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of Sao Paulo, the Mentalplus. It has been shown that the neuropsychological evaluation results obtained by the Mentalplus results have a strong correlation in these populations when compared with usual neuropsychological tests. Furthermore, with the improvement in cardiac imaging, I am going to continue as a medical in training in the Department of Cardiac imaging in Cardiology. Area - Multi aspects of cardiac imaging. It will be at the Heart Institute - HCFMUSP, from the Universisy of São Paulo - Brazil

Mentalplus digital game usefulness in cognitive dysfunction evaluation compared to neuropsychological testing batteries in a hypertensive treated population

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Neurologic Disorders and Heart Disease

Session: Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations, miscellaneous

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