Mode of death on Chagas heart disease: comparison with other etiologies. a subanalysis of the REMADHE prospective trial.

• Main Authors: Silvia M Ayub-Ferreira (Author), Sandrigo Mangini (Author), Victor S Issa (Author), Fátima D Cruz (Author), Fernando Bacal (Author), Guilherme V Guimarães (Author), Paulo R Chizzola (Author), Germano E Conceição-Souza (Author), Fabiana G Marcondes-Braga (Author), Edimar A Bocchi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Sudden death has been considered the main cause of death in patients with Chagas heart disease. Nevertheless, this information comes from a period before the introduction of drugs that changed the natural history of heart failure. We sought to study the mode of death of patients with heart failure c...