1991
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46651991000600004
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Contribuição ao estudo da anatomia patológica do megaesôfago chagásico

Abstract: Estudo anatomopatológico sistematizado foi feito em 56 esôfagos de chagásicos crônicos (17 com e 39 sem mega) e em 26 de não chagásicos com as seguintes finalidades: 1) avaliar as variações de calibre e espessura da parede do órgão; 2) analisar qualitativa e quantitativamente o plexo mientérico, na tentativa de avaliar a eventual relação entre suas lesões e o aparecimento de megaesôfago (ME); 3) estudar as lesões das musculares procurando verificar sua contribuição na gênese da visceromegalia; 4) pesquisar for… Show more

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“…The single dog with periganglionitis in the myenteric plexus of the esophagus was not infected. However, in case it is possible to find a parallel with the works with human beings, the present finding does not seem so remarkable considering that the alteration is relatively frequent in healthy, non-chagasic, humans deceased in a violent way (Adad et al 1991).…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 66%
“…The single dog with periganglionitis in the myenteric plexus of the esophagus was not infected. However, in case it is possible to find a parallel with the works with human beings, the present finding does not seem so remarkable considering that the alteration is relatively frequent in healthy, non-chagasic, humans deceased in a violent way (Adad et al 1991).…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 66%
“…Such parasite-induced host-cell survival could help establish long-term parasitism in mammalian hosts by reducing nerve damage that inevitably arises as a consequence of parasite invasion. Otherwise, in the absence of such neurotrophic help, chagasic patients might suffer an even more extensive damage of the nervous tissues inhabited by T. cruzi (1)(2)(3). Our results raise the possibility of TS playing a role in the neuroregeneration and, thus, in the prevention of Chagas' disease.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%
“…Neuron regeneration and survival seem critical for the healthy status of chagasic individuals, because if the patients progress to chronic symptomatic disease, as is the case in Ͻ50% infected individuals, they exhibit extensive destruction of the autonomic nervous system in the GI tract and͞or heart and, consequently, inexorably will die with megaesophagus, megacolon, and͞or cardiomegaly (3,4). The mechanism underlying neuronal regeneration and survival in Chagas' disease remains unknown.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The presence of chronic inflammation could be the explanation for this response, particularly in the myocardium, or possibly the persistence of T. cruzi or its antigens in the spleen, as has already been proven in other organs. [16][17][18][19] This phenomenon would presumably imply the formation and recirculation of leukocytes, which would contribute to the increase in area of the lymphoid follicles.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%