| Autor: |
Auger S; Hospital Público General de Agudos Francisco Santojanni, Buenos Aires, Argentina., Storino R, Iglesias Ordoñez O, Urrutia MI, Sanmartino M, Romero D, Jörg M |
| Jazyk: |
portugalština |
| Zdroj: |
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical [Rev Soc Bras Med Trop] 2002 Nov-Dec; Vol. 35 (6), pp. 609-16. Date of Electronic Publication: 2003 Feb 26. |
| DOI: |
10.1590/s0037-86822002000600011 |
| Abstrakt: |
The objective of this work was to evaluate the most frequent causes of emergency in patients with Chagas disease. Between January 1998-January 1999, individuals with Chagas disease inside the shock-room of Santojanni Hospital in Buenos Aires city, were included in a prospective study. For the statistical analysis, X test with Yates correction has been used. From a total of 1.680 patients entered, there were 95 (6%) with reactive serology for Chagas disease. In 31 individuals the enter cause was syncope, in 28 cardiac insufficiency, in 18 acute coronary events, in 5 stroke, in 3 acute edema of hypertensive lung and in 2 acute encephalitis associated to AIDS. In conclusion, significant association has been observed between: 1) presence of cardiopathy and hospitalization, 2) cardiac insufficiency, syncope, acute encephalitis and mortality, 3) cardiopathy development and mortality and 4) origin place and mortality. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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