Early impairment of myocardial deformation assessed by regional speckle-tracking echocardiography in the indeterminate form of Chagas disease without fibrosis detected by cardiac magnetic resonance.

• Päätekijät: Minna Moreira Dias Romano (Tekijä), Henrique Turin Moreira (Tekijä), José Antônio Marin-Neto (Tekijä), Priscila Elias Baccelli (Tekijä), Fawaz Alenezi (Tekijä), Igor Klem (Tekijä), Benedito Carlos Maciel (Tekijä), Joseph Kisslo (Tekijä), André Schmidt (Tekijä), Eric J Velazquez (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Chagas disease (CD) will account for 200,000 cardiovascular deaths worldwide over the next 5 years. Early detection of chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) is a challenge. We aimed to test if speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) can detect incipient myocardial damage in CD.<h4>Methods</h4...