2001
DOI: 10.1590/s0037-86822001000500003
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Abstract: The authors describe the main clinical findings relative to cardiac involvement, in patients with acute Chagas' disease (CD) in yet another familial micro-epidemic episode of CD in Amazon region. Thirteen patients were studied with acute Chagas' disease, resident in the city of Abaetetuba in Pará state; they were submitted to clinical and heart evaluation, with electrocardiograph and echocardiograph exams. Ventricular extrasystole occurred in 38.5% of the cases. Right bundle branch block and 1st and 2nd degree… Show more

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“…In the Cametá outbreak, two deaths due to acute myopericarditis occurred (22,23). In our study, three patients presented mild pericardial effusion without relationship either to ECG conduction disturbances or low ejection fraction in echocardiogram.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 42%
“…In the Cametá outbreak, two deaths due to acute myopericarditis occurred (22,23). In our study, three patients presented mild pericardial effusion without relationship either to ECG conduction disturbances or low ejection fraction in echocardiogram.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 42%
“…Among these investigations, studies by Coura et al (1993Coura et al ( , 1994aCoura et al ( , b, 1995aCoura et al ( , b, 1999Coura et al ( , 2002a, Valente and Valente (1993), Valente et al (1994Valente et al ( , 1998Valente et al ( , 1999Valente et al ( , 2000Valente et al ( , 2009, Pinto et al (2001Pinto et al ( , 2003Pinto et al ( , 2004Pinto et al ( , 2008, Albajar et al (2003), Junqueira et al (2005), Xavier et al (2006) and Brum-Soares et al (2010) can be highlighted.…”
Section: The Current Situation Regarding Chagas Disease In Thementioning
confidence: 98%
“…Contrasting this data, in the City of Barcelos, State of Amazonas, eighteen children under 10 years of age were found positive for T. cruzi 23 . Two autochthonous cases were found in Rio Negro, Amazon, and both died from chronic Chagas myocardiopathy 24 .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%