Emergências em pacientes com doença de Chagas na cidade de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

The objective of this work was to evaluate the most frequent causes of emergency in patients with Chagas disease. Between January 1998-January 1999, individuals with Chagas disease inside the shock-room of Santojanni Hospital in Buenos Aires city, were included in a prospective study. For the statistical analysis, X test with Yates correction has been used. From a total of 1.680 patients entered, there were 95 (6%) with reactive serology for Chagas disease. In 31 individuals the enter cause was syncope, in 28 cardiac insufficiency, in 18 acute coronary events, in 5 stroke, in 3 acute edema of hypertensive lung and in 2 acute encephalitis associated to AIDS. In conclusion, significant association has been observed between: 1) presence of cardiopathy and hospitalization, 2) cardiac insufficiency, syncope, acute encephalitis and mortality, 3) cardiopathy development and mortality and 4) origin place and mortality.

Coronariopatia assintomática em chagásicos com insuficiência cardíaca: prevalência e fatores de risco

“…In literature, there are no similar groups of Chagasic patients in whom this procedure has been carried out to determine coronary artery disease 22,32 . Table 1 -Chagasic patient sample data…”