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Heart transplantation for chronic chagas' heart disease

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1996
Chagas' disease has been considered a contraindication to heart transplantation as Trypanosoma cruzi infection could recur after immunosuppression.We report the follow-up of 22 patients who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation for treatment of end-stage chronic Chagas' heart disease, divided in two groups. Group 1 consisted of 9 patients operated
E A, Bocchi, G, Bellotti, A O, Mocelin, D, Uip, F, Bacal, M L, Higuchi, V, Amato-Neto, A, Fiorelli, N A, Stolf, A D, Jatene, F, Pileggi   +10 more
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Autoantibodies and chronic Chagas's heart disease

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1981
Serum samples from 150 individuals from an area in Brazil where Chagas's disease is endemic were examined for the presence of autoantibodies (EVI and PN). Patients were divided into four groups according to the diagnostic value and prognostic significance of electrocardiographic changes.
J M, Peralta, P, Ginefra, J C, Dias, J M, Magalhães, A, Szarfman   +4 more
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Prevalence of Slow Heart Rates in Chronic Chagas' Disease

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1981
The prevalence of slow heart rate was investigated among 222 patients with Chagas' disease, 50 normal subjects, and 55 patients with non-chagasic heart failure. In any decade of life the basal heart rate of patients with chagasic heart failure was always significantly lower (P less than 0.001) than the basal heart rate of non-chagasic heart failure ...
H A, Palmero, T F, Caeiro, D, Iosa
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Chronic Chagas’ Heart Disease in the Elderly: A Clinicopathologic Study

Cardiology, 2008
A retrospective study of the medical records of our hospital from 1965 to 1985 was carried out to characterize for the first time chronic Chagas’ heart disease in the elderly (more than 70 years old). A total of 25 patients (mean age = 76) were suitable for the study.
R B, Bestetti, C P, Ramos, R A, Godoy, J S, Oliveira   +3 more
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Myocardiocyte apoptosis in heart failure in chronic Chagas' disease

International Journal of Cardiology, 2005
Chagas' disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease affects 16-18 million patients in South America and heart involvement is the major cause of morbidity and mortality of the disease. The myocarditis observed during the chronic phase affects patients independently of the clinical manifestation, although patients with heart failure ...
Sebastião, Tostes, Denise, Bertulucci Rocha-Rodrigues, Gilberto, de Araujo Pereira, Virmondes, Rodrigues   +3 more
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Cardiac thrombosis and thromboembolism in chronic chagas' heart disease

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1983
A retrospective study of Chagas' heart disease was carried out by a review of 1,345 autopsy reports, with special reference to cardiac thrombus and thromboembolic phenomena. The incidence of cardiac thrombus was higher in cases of heart failure (36%) than in cases of sudden death (15%), higher in heavier hearts, and unrelated to age or sex.
J, Samuel, M, Oliveira, R R, Correa De Araujo, M A, Navarro, G, Muccillo   +4 more
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Postural Reflexes in Chronic Chagas’s Heart Disease

Cardiology, 2008
Studies of heart rate and blood pressure responses to 70° head-up tilt and 30° head-down tilt were conducted in normal subjects and in chronic cardiac chagasic patients without past or present cardiac decompensation. During steady state of tilt, heart rate alterations were less marked in the chagasic than in the control group.
J.A. Marin Neto, L., jr. Gallo, J.C. Manço, A. Rassi, D.S. Amorim   +4 more
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The pattern of myocardial fibrosis in chronic Chagas' heart disease

International Journal of Cardiology, 1991
Observations are described on the fibrillar nature and structural features of the collagenous interstices of the human myocardium in chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy, comparing them with similar observations in normal hearts, using the picrosirius red technique and polarization microscopy.
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Chronic Chagas' heart disease in children and adolescents: a clinicopathologic study

International Journal of Cardiology, 1985
A retrospective study of the medical records filed at the University Hospital from 1965 to 1983 and of 18456 autopsies carried out in the Department of Pathology of this Institution from 1953 to 1983, referring to patients aged less than 18 years was performed in an attempt to fully characterize chronic Chagas' heart disease in children and adolescents.
R, Corrêa de Araujo, R B, Bestetti, R A, Godoy, J S, Oliveira   +3 more
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