Morphological heart changes in animals with experimental systemic lupus erythematosus [PDF]
Background: Heart pathology in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) refers to the most common manifestations of the disease and largely determines its prognosis..1 2 The pathogenetic constructions of myocardium, endocardium and coronary vessel lesions ...
Bevzenko, T. +2 more
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Evolução da cardiopatia chagásica crônica I - influência da parasitemia
No período de 8 anos (1982-1990) foi avaliada a evolução da cardiopatia chagásica crônica (CCC),pelo estudo eletrocardiográfico de repouso, edaparasitemiapeloxenodiagnóstico em 279pacientes, 85 homens e 194mulheres, com idades de 7a 76 anos (média = 42,6
José Borges Pereira +2 more
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Chagas' disease in Bolivia : clinical and epidemiological features and zymodeme variability of Trypanosoma cruzi strains isolated from patients [PDF]
Aparicio, G. +5 more
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Comparison of clinical presentation of respiratory tract infections in H1N1/09-positive and H1N1/09-negative patients [PDF]
The true burden of influenza in children is difficult to assess and is probably underestimated as clinical signs are usually nonspecific, and formal viral identification is rarely searched.
Barazzone, Constance +8 more
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Autoimmunity in Chagas' heart disease
The time scale dissociation between high parasitemia and tissue pathology, allied to the absence of parasites in the heart lesions of chronic Chagas' disease cardiopathy, casted doubt on the direct participation of Trypanosoma cruzi in tissue lesions ...
Edécio Cunha-Neto, Jorge Kalil
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CHRONIC CHAGASIC CARDIOPATHY: THE PRODUCT OF A TURBULENT HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP
The pathogenesis of chronic chagasic cardiopathy is still a debated matter. In this review, the main theories raised about it since the first description of the disease in 1909 by Carlos Chagas, are considered.
Maria de Lourdes HIGUCHI
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Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy
The objective of this work was to verify the degree and type of heart damage of elderly chagasic patients seen at an outpatient referral center and to compare them with the changes found in young chagasic patients with a similar degree of heart damage ...
Manoel Otávio Costa Rocha +5 more
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Bacterial Brain Abscesses: Factors Influencing Mortality and Sequelae [PDF]
Thirty-nine cases of brain abscess diagnosed since the advent of the computed tomographic (CT) scan were analyzed for factors influencing the outcome. The mortality rate was 13%, and severe sequelae were present in 22% of the survivors.
Francioli, P., Seydoux, Ch
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Stress – a risk for organizational performance [PDF]
Representing the central point of many heated theoretical debates, the concept of stress is often used, with meanings that are more or less concrete. It does not belong anymore only to medicine, although it owes a lot to the researchers who focused their
Alecxandrina DEACONU, Lavinia RASCA
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