Pathogenesis of Chronic Chagas Heart Disease

By J. Marin-Neto, E. Cunha-Neto, B. Maciel, M. Simões. Circulation, 2007

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Epidemiology

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Citations in the corpus

• The Neglected Tropical Diseases of Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of Disease Burden and Distribution and a Roadmap for Control and Elimination (2008, background): “4 million people will develop chronic Chagas heart disease [20,45], while 900,000 will develop megaesophagus and megacolon [20].”
• Dilated Cardiomyopathy (2007, background): “The chronic cardiac involvement manifests as Chagas cardiomyopathy, characterized by a chronic myocarditis that involves all cardiac chambers and damage to the conduction system [12].”