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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Emerging acute Chagas Disease in Amazonian Brazil: case reports with serious cardiac involvement
Autores: | Pinto,Ana Yecê das Neves; Valente,Sebastião Aldo da Silva; Valente,Vera da Costa.
Data: | 2004-12-01
Ano: | 2004
Palavras-chave: | Chagas disease; Trypanosomiasis; Cardiovascular; Brazilian Amazon; Myocarditis.
Resumo: | Four cases of serious cardiac attacks by autochthonous Trypanosoma cruzi infection from the Brazilian Amazon are reported; three of them occurred in micro-epidemic episodes. The manifestations included sudden fever, myalgia, dyspnea and signs of heart failure. Diagnosis was confirmed by specific exams, especially QBC (Quantitative Buffy Coat) and natural xenodiagnosis. Despite treatment with benznidazol, three patients died with serious myocarditis, renal failure and cardiac tamponade. The authors call attention to the emergence of this disease and reveal a previously unknown pathogenicity of T. cruzi strains in this area, added to a non-usual transmission form.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/report
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702004000600010
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702004000600010
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.8 n.6 2004
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess