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An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States
Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is a late complication of Chagas disease with various manifestations including arrhythmia, heart failure, thromboembolism, and stroke. In a patient with symptoms of heart failure and left ventricular apical aneurysm unexplained by structural heart or coronary vasc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28706597 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.208675 |
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description | Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is a late complication of Chagas disease with various manifestations including arrhythmia, heart failure, thromboembolism, and stroke. In a patient with symptoms of heart failure and left ventricular apical aneurysm unexplained by structural heart or coronary vascular abnormalities, CCC should be strongly considered and inquiry made about exposure status. Typical electrocardiographic findings of bundle branch block, complete heart blocks, and ventricular arrhythmia are helpful clues. A positive trypanosomal immunoglobulin G antibody is supportive. Initiation of stage appropriate guideline-recommended heart failure regimen is the goal with careful attention paid to prevention of sudden cardiac death from ventricular arrhythmias. |
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spelling | pubmed-55010302017-07-13 An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States Taleb, Mohammed M. Heart Views Case Report Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is a late complication of Chagas disease with various manifestations including arrhythmia, heart failure, thromboembolism, and stroke. In a patient with symptoms of heart failure and left ventricular apical aneurysm unexplained by structural heart or coronary vascular abnormalities, CCC should be strongly considered and inquiry made about exposure status. Typical electrocardiographic findings of bundle branch block, complete heart blocks, and ventricular arrhythmia are helpful clues. A positive trypanosomal immunoglobulin G antibody is supportive. Initiation of stage appropriate guideline-recommended heart failure regimen is the goal with careful attention paid to prevention of sudden cardiac death from ventricular arrhythmias. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5501030/ /pubmed/28706597 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.208675 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Heart Views http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Taleb, Mohammed M. An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States |
title | An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States |
title_full | An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States |
title_fullStr | An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States |
title_full_unstemmed | An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States |
title_short | An Infrequent Cause of Apical Ventricular Aneurysm in the United States |
title_sort | infrequent cause of apical ventricular aneurysm in the united states |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28706597 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.208675 |
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