Comprehensive care for patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy during the coronavirus disease pandemic

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2020
Autores
Mazzoli-Rocha, Flavia
Mendes, Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha
Silva, Paula Simplicio
Silva, Gilberto Marcelo Sperandio da
Mediano, Mauro Felippe Felix
Sousa, Andréa Silvestre de
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Resumo
Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease according to the World Health Organization1. The most common clinical complication of Chagas disease is Chagas cardiomyopathy, that represents the main cause of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in Latin America, affecting 20% to 40% of infected people2. The chronic form, with a slow and persistent course, results from the destruction of the myocardial fibers, caused by a chronic inflammatory process. It is associated with intense reparative fibrosis and progressive ventricular remodeling and manifests as heart failure and/or arrhythmic and thromboembolic syndromes3
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COVID-19, Chagas Cardiomyopathy / therapy, Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology, Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology, Trypanosoma cruzi
Citação
Mazzoli-Rocha F, Mendes FSNS, Silva PS, Silva GMSD, Mediano MFF, Sousa AS. Comprehensive care for patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy during the coronavirus disease pandemic. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 2020 Oct 5;53:e20200353