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.

• Main Authors: Minna Moreira Dias Romano (Author), Henrique Turin Moreira (Author), José Antônio Marin-Neto (Author), Priscila Elias Baccelli (Author), Fawaz Alenezi (Author), Igor Klem (Author), Benedito Carlos Maciel (Author), Joseph Kisslo (Author), André Schmidt (Author), Eric J Velazquez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...