Chagas cardiomyopathy: the potential of diastolic dysfunction and brain natriuretic peptide in the early identification of cardiac damage.
INTRODUCTION: Chagas disease remains a major cause of mortality in several countries of Latin America and has become a potential public health problem in non-endemic countries as a result of migration flows. Cardiac involvement represents the main cause of mortality, but its diagnosis is still based...
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Main Authors: | Ana Garcia-Alvarez (Author), Marta Sitges (Author), María-Jesús Pinazo (Author), Ander Regueiro-Cueva (Author), Elizabeth Posada (Author), Silvia Poyatos (Author), José Tomás Ortiz-Pérez (Author), Magda Heras (Author), Manel Azqueta (Author), Joaquim Gascon (Author), Ginés Sanz (Author) |
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2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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