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.

• 主要な著者: Minna Moreira Dias Romano (著者), Henrique Turin Moreira (著者), José Antônio Marin-Neto (著者), Priscila Elias Baccelli (著者), Fawaz Alenezi (著者), Igor Klem (著者), Benedito Carlos Maciel (著者), Joseph Kisslo (著者), André Schmidt (著者), Eric J Velazquez (著者)
• フォーマット: 図書
• 出版事項: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• 主題: 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...