1. Short report: endomyocardial fibrosis and cardiomyopathy in an area endemic for schistosomiasis
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José Roberto Lambertucci, Darley S. Marques, Joel Alves Lamounier, Edmundo Clarindo Oliveira, Marcia M. Barbosa, and Mara V. Souza
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Adolescent ,Heart disease ,Endomyocardial fibrosis ,Cardiomyopathy ,Helminthiasis ,Schistosomiasis ,Electrocardiography ,Feces ,Fibrosis ,Virology ,Internal medicine ,Abdomen ,Humans ,Medicine ,cardiovascular diseases ,Child ,Endocardium ,Aged ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Middle Aged ,Endomyocardial Fibrosis ,medicine.disease ,Echocardiography, Doppler ,Infectious Diseases ,Child, Preschool ,cardiovascular system ,Cardiology ,Female ,Parasitology ,Cardiomyopathies ,business ,circulatory and respiratory physiology - Abstract
An association of schistosomiasis and endomyocardial fibrosis or cardiomyopathy has been suggested. Clinical, stool, abdominal ultrasound, electrocardiogram, and Doppler echocardiogram examinations were performed on 226 patients from an area endemic for schistosomiasis. The diagnosis of schistosomiasis was made in 152 patients (69%) but clinical, electrocardiographic, or Doppler echocardiographic evidence of a schistosome cardiomyopathy or endomyocardial fibrosis could not be detected in any patient.
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- 1998
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