Carlos Chagas Discoveries as a Drop Back to Scientific Construction of Chronic Chagas Heart Disease
Abstract The scientific construction of chronic Chagas heart disease (CCHD) started in 1910 when Carlos Chagas highlighted the presence of cardiac arrhythmia during physical examination of patients with chronic Chagas disease, and described a case of heart failure associated with myocardial inflamma...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia (SBC)
2016-01-01
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Series: | Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2016005015102&lng=en&tlng=en |