Clinical Presentations of Chagas Cardiomyopathy

Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is the most common cause of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in endemic Latin American countries. Immigrants to the United States suffer from this disease, but it is underrecognized. We describe the three hallmark clinical presentations: stroke, ventricular arrhythmias,...

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Autores principales: Shehadeh, Malik, Barac, Ana, Marcus, Rachel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7657672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33204541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8884910
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description Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is the most common cause of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in endemic Latin American countries. Immigrants to the United States suffer from this disease, but it is underrecognized. We describe the three hallmark clinical presentations: stroke, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart failure, which should prompt suspicion for CCC.
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spelling pubmed-76576722020-11-16 Clinical Presentations of Chagas Cardiomyopathy Shehadeh, Malik Barac, Ana Marcus, Rachel Case Rep Cardiol Case Report Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is the most common cause of nonischemic cardiomyopathy in endemic Latin American countries. Immigrants to the United States suffer from this disease, but it is underrecognized. We describe the three hallmark clinical presentations: stroke, ventricular arrhythmias, and heart failure, which should prompt suspicion for CCC. Hindawi 2020-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7657672/ /pubmed/33204541 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8884910 Text en Copyright © 2020 Malik Shehadeh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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