R Kalil Filho,C P de Albuquerque
R Kalil Filho
Many important aspects of Chagas' heart disease can be successfully assessed using magnetic resonance imaging of the heart. It is possible to obtain with great detail the anatomic characterization of the cardiac as well as important informa...
E A Bocchi
E A Bocchi
The role of heart transplants for treating Chagas' heart disease is not quite clear. Immunosuppression could lead to resurgence of T. cruzi infection with acute or chronic damage to the allograft. There are few publications regarding this i...
A A Fragata Filho,M A da Silva,E Boainain
A A Fragata Filho
The uncertainties in the ethiological treatment of Chagas' Disease are consequence of the lack of entire knowledge of its pathogeny and the no existence of a healing criterium. There is a consensus that antiparasite drugs should be in the a...
J C Braga,A Labrunie,F Villaça et al.
J C Braga et al.
Thromboembolic episodes are particularly important in chronic Chagas' heart disease. Systemic and pulmonary embolic phenomena are important complications of the disease. Prophylaxis of the thromboembolic phenomena with anticoagulant therapy...
A A de Paola,A A Gondin,V Hara et al.
A A de Paola et al.
There are no controlled clinical trials evaluating drug therapy in patients with ventricular arrhythmias and chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy. Empirical treatment with disopyramide (400-1, 1,000mg/d), phenytoin (4-6mg/d), mexiletine 600-1,20...
A P de Moraes,P J Moffa,E A Sosa et al.
A P de Moraes et al.
The aim of the study was to register the prevalence of late potentials (LP) in patients with chronic Chagas' heart disease (CCD) and the relationship with sustained ventricular tachycardia (SVT). 192 patients (96 males), mean age 42.9 years...
M Scanavacca,E Sosa
M Scanavacca
Cardiac arrhythmias are common in chagasic patients. Electrophysiologic study is an invasive procedure for the investigation of sinus node function, atrioventricular node conduction and intraventricular (His-Purkinje) conduction and the mec...
C J Grupi,P J Moffa,S A Barbosa et al.
C J Grupi et al.
Electrocardiographic rhythm disturbance evaluation by Holter monitoring is increasingly becoming a useful methodologic tool for risk stratification as well as for therapeutic assessment in patients with Chagas' disease. Furthermore, late po...
J A Marin-Neto,M V Simões,E M Ayres-Neto et al.
J A Marin-Neto et al.
Pathogenesis of chronic Chagas' heart disease may include various disturbances in the coronary circulation, that could be responsible for the myocardial lesions seen in human hearts and in experimental models of the disease. In this paper w...
Endomyocardial biopsy in Chagas' heart disease: pathogenetic contributions [0.03%]
查加斯病心肌炎的内分泌心肌活检病理研究
M D Higuchi
M D Higuchi
Endomyocardial biopsy procedure has been performed in many centers around the world, allowing a better treatment and follow-up of the patients with myocardial disease. In Chagas' disease, it has been performed in São Paulo Heart Institute ...