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| Pazin-Filho,A.; Romano,M.M.D.; Almeida-Filho,O.C.; Furuta,M.S.; Viviani,L.F.; Schmidt,A.; Marin-Neto,J.A.; Maciel,B.C.. |
| Recent data from our laboratory have shown that patients with the indeterminate form of Chagas' disease can have impairment of left ventricular contractility, as evaluated by the slope of the left ventricle end-systolic pressure-dimension relationship. We also showed that Chagas' disease patients with minimal baseline wall motion abnormalities detected by two-dimensional echocardiography have more intense contractility impairment when compared to patients with the indeterminate form of the disease without this abnormality. The prognostic implications of these findings have not been established. We evaluated 59 patients (37-76 years, mean = 55 years) with different clinical forms of Chagas' disease, who had normal left ventricular global systolic function... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Echocardiography; Chagas' disease; Left ventricular function; Indeterminate form of Chagas' disease. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2006000400008 |
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