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Early detection of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in Chagas' disease

Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2006
Background Chagas' disease may cause left ventricular diastolic dysfunction and its early detection in asymptomatic patients would allow to stratify the risk and to optimize medical treatment.
Prado Nilda G, Morita Luis A, Papantoniou Alonso, Lax Jorge A, Saccheri María C, Cianciulli Tomás F, Dorelle Adriana N, Riarte Adelina R, Prezioso Horacio A   +8 more
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Continuing evidence of Chagas disease along the Texas-Mexico border.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
BackgroundChagas disease is a chronic parasitic infection that progresses to dilated cardiomyopathy in 30% of human cases. Public health efforts target diagnosing asymptomatic cases, as therapeutic efficacy diminishes as irreversible tissue damage ...
Melissa S Nolan, David Aguilar, Eric L Brown, Sarah M Gunter, Shannon E Ronca, Craig L Hanis, Kristy O Murray   +6 more
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Barriers to Diagnosis Access for Chagas Disease in Colombia

Journal of Parasitology Research, 2018
Chagas disease is the leading cause of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in Latin America. Timely access to diagnosis and trypanocidal treatment and preventive tools for millions of infected people continues to be a challenge.
Mario Javier Olivera, Julián Felipe Porras Villamil, Christian Camilo Toquica Gahona, Jorge Martín Rodríguez Hernández   +3 more
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Chagas' disease

The Lancet, 2001
E S, Umezawa, A M, Stolf, C E, Corbett, M A, Shikanai-Yasuda   +3 more
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Treatment of Chagas disease

, 2010
Abstract Although Chagas disease has existed for at least 9000 years, its treatment is recent: the internationally accepted drugs nifurtimox and benznidazole date from the 1970s. Both drugs are effective in acute cases, in congenital cases, in reactivation of chronic cases, and in new chronic cases. Its usefulness in chronic cases has not been shown,
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The genetics and genomics of Trypanosoma cruzi [PDF]

, 2007
Trypanosoma cruzi is a kinetoplastid parasite that causes Chagas disease. Trypanosomes are unusual organisms in many aspects of its genetics and molecular and cellular biology and considered a paradigm of the exception of the rule in the eukaryotic ...
Vazquez, Martin Pablo
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Prevalence of Chagas Disease Among Blood Donors in Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH), Sokoto Nigeria

Sokoto Journal of Medical Laboratory Science, 2017
Transfusion-transmissible infections (TTIs) are the greatest threats to blood transfusion safety and pose a serious public health problem in Nigeria.
Onuigwe, Festus Uchechukwu *, Udomah, F.P., Yakubu, Abdulrahaman, Isaac, Zama, Adias, Teddy Charles, Ibrahim, Kwaifa, Buhari, Hauwa, Okwesili, Augustine, Ahmed, Marafa , Imoru, Momodu, Erhabor, Osaro, Bagudo, Aliyu, Okorie, Hope
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Anisocoria na fase crônica da doença de Chagas

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1995
Para verificar a freqüência de anisocoria em portadores da fase crônica da doença de Chagas foi feito estudo prospectivo e duplo cego. Foram submetidos a exame oftalmológico 131 pacientes com sorologia positiva para doença de Chagas e 138 indivíduos com ...
João Antônio Prata, João Antônio Prata Júnior, Cleudson Nery de Castro, Vanize Macedo, Aluízio Prata   +4 more
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Pediatric Chagas disease. [PDF]

CMAJ
Garcia-Bournissen F, Cruz C, Altcheh J.
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Anticoagulation for Atrial Fibrillation after Resolution of Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Henrique Horta Veloso
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