Relationship between Fibrosis and Ventricular Arrhythmias in Chagas Heart Disease Without Ventricular Dysfunction

BACKGROUND: Patients with Chagas disease and segmental wall motion abnormality (SWMA) have worse prognosis independent of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is currently the best method to detect SWMA and to assess fibrosis. OBJECTIVE: To quantify fibrosis by...

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Autores principales: Tassi, Eduardo Marinho, Continentino, Marcelo Abramoff, do Nascimento, Emília Matos, Pereira, Basílio de Bragança, Pedrosa, Roberto Coury
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4051448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24918912
http://dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20140052

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