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Renata Junqueira Moll-Bernardes1, Roberto Magalhães Saraiva2, Renée Sarmento de Oliveira1, Martha Valéria Tavares Pinheiro1, Gabriel Cordeiro Camargo3,1, Adriana Soares Xavier de Brito3,1, Sergio Altino de Almeida1, Fabio Paiva Rossini de Siqueira1, Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha Mendes2, Rodrigo Minati Barbosa3, Sergio Salles Xavier2, Paulo Henrique Rosado de Castro1, Andréa Silvestre de Sousa2,1.
Abstract
Chronic Chagas heart disease has different clinical manifestations including arrhythmias, heart failure, and stroke. Chest pain is one of the most common symptoms and when associated with changes in the electrocardiogram, such as T-wave changes, electrically inactive areas, and segmental wall motion abnormalities, may lead to a misdiagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Here, we describe two patients with Chagas heart disease and syncope due to sustained ventricular tachycardia who were misdiagnosed with ACS, and discuss the role of novel imaging modalities in the differential diagnosis and risk stratification.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID： 32043461 PMCID： PMC7124900 DOI： 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0920
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN： 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345