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Chronic Chagas disease with heart involvement
Doença de Chagas crônica com envolvimento cardíaco
CategoryDefinition
A disease caused by a chronic infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. This disease commonly presents with severe malaise or cardiac involvement (such as cardiomyopathy, cardiac failure, thromboembolism, bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias, apical aneurysms, or cardiac arrest). Transmission is by direct contact with faeces from an infected triatomine bug, vertical transmission, iatrogenic transmission, or ingestion of contaminated food or water. Confirmation is by identification of Trypanosoma cruzi in a blood sample.
Inclusions
- Chagas' disease with myocarditis
Index Terms
Chronic Chagas disease with heart involvementAmerican trypanosomiasis with heart involvementchronic Chagas disease NOSChagas-Mazza diseaseChagas' disease with myocarditisinflammatory cardiomyopathy due to Chaga diseaseChronic Chagas disease with cardiovascular involvement, not elsewhere classified