1984
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86821984000300003
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Identificação do Trypanosoma cruzi nos tecidos extracardíacos de portadores de miocardite crônica chagásica

Abstract: D urante a fase aguda da doença de Chagas sabe-se que os parasitos podem ser encontrados em quase todos os órgãos e em vários tipos celulares^. N o entanto, nas formas crônicas os parasitos se tomam muito raros nos tecidos e admite-se que eles só são por vezes encontrados no coração e, excepcionalmente, em fibras musculares do esôfago ou cólon4. Recen temente, Almeida, Teixeira e O liveira1 cham aram a atenção para uma flebite crônica na veia central da adrenal encontrada em 97% dos chagásicos crônicos, com a … Show more

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“…Several studies have demonstrated that T. cruzi parasites or antigens can be found, although rarely, in individuals with chronic infection (Barbosa Jr andAndrade 1984, Jones et al 1993, Palomino et al 2000). However, the analyses of human heart fragments have failed to show a correlation between intensity of inflammation and of parasitism, even with the use of highly sensitive techniques, such as PCR or immunohistochemistry (Palomino et al 2000, Olivares-Villagomez et al 1998.…”
Section: Parasite Persistence and Inflammationmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Several studies have demonstrated that T. cruzi parasites or antigens can be found, although rarely, in individuals with chronic infection (Barbosa Jr andAndrade 1984, Jones et al 1993, Palomino et al 2000). However, the analyses of human heart fragments have failed to show a correlation between intensity of inflammation and of parasitism, even with the use of highly sensitive techniques, such as PCR or immunohistochemistry (Palomino et al 2000, Olivares-Villagomez et al 1998.…”
Section: Parasite Persistence and Inflammationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Vianna described that the intensity of inflammatory response observed in hearts of individuals with chagasic cardiopathy was not proportional to the degree of tissue parasitism. More importantly, in CChC patients, rare parasites are also found in other organs free of significant inflammation, whereas in the myocardium, they are found associated with chronic inflammatory response and fibrosis (Barbosa Jr andAndrade 1984, Mortara et al 1999). This has also been observed in the mouse model of CChC (Buckner et al 1999).…”
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“…Transition to chronic cardiac form probably occurs through disappearance of, or interference with, suppressive factors. Therefore, both parasites and heart tissue appear to be important to explain diffuse and progressive inflammatory lesions of the cardiac form, since parasites outside the heart will continue to induce focal reactions only (Barbosa & Andrade 1984). The factors responsible for the transition from the indeterminate to the chronic, progressive stage of Chagas disease remain to be elucidated.…”
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“…11 The use of these modern approaches in the detection of T. cruzi has made it easier to detect lesion-associated parasite persistence in chronic chagasic patients, which is demonstrable only in 30% of the cases by routine microscopic analysis. 12,13 The present paper deals with the persistence of T. cruzi in the myocardium of chronic chagasic patients using routine methodology, as well as endomyocardial biopsies (EMBs) performed on 18 untreated patients and on 10 patients at different times after treatment, using histopathologic, immunohistochemical (peroxidase-anti-peroxidase [PAP]), and molecular (polymerase chain reaction [PCR]) techniques.…”
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