Electrocardiographic findings in naturally acquired chagasic heart disease in nonhuman primates

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-160

  Zabalgoitia, Miguel ^a   Ventura, Jaime ^a   Anderson, Lori ^a   Williams, Jeff T ^b,c   Carey, K D ^b,c   VandeBerg, John L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Baboons; Chagas' disease; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Trypanonosoma cruzi

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BABOON; CHAGAS DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; P WAVE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; T WAVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WENCKEBACH PERIOD;

EID: 0038351033     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jelc.2003.50019     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Schumanis GA: Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas' disease: Status in the blood supply in endemic and non-endemic countries. Transfusion 31:547, 1991
2. Riarte A, Luna C, Sabatiello R, et al: Chagas' disease in patients with kidney transplants: 7 years of experience, 1986-1996. Clin Infect Dis 29:561, 1999
3. Chagas disease after organ transplantation - United States, 2001. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 51:210, 2002
4. Kirchhoff L: Trypanosoma species (American Trypanosomiasis, Chagas Disease): Biology of typanosomses, in Mandewll G, Bennett J, Dolin R, (eds): Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases (ed 5). New York, NY, Churchhill Livingstone, 2000, p 2845
5. Llop E, Rothhammer F, Acuña M, Apt W: HLA antigens in cardiomyopathic Chilean chagasics. Am J Hum Genet 43:770, 1988
6. Rassi A Jr, Rassi A, Little W: Chagas' Heart Disease. Clin Cardio 23:883, 2000
7. Bonecini-Almeida MDB, Galvão-Castro B, Pessoa MHR, et al: Experimental Chagas' disease in rhesus monkeys. Clinical, parasitological, hematological and anatomopathological studies in the acute and indeterminate phase of the disease. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 85:163, 1990
8. Seah SKK, Marsden PD, Voller A, et al: Experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection in rhesus monkeys - the acute phase. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 68:63, 1974
9. Enders B, Weinmann F, Nagle CA, et al: Experimental Chagas' disease in primates Macaca fascicularis and Cebus apella: preclinical trials and evaluation of a living non replicating T. cruzi vaccine. Behring Inst Mitt 71:132, 1982
10. De Almeida EA, Navarro MR, Guariento ME, et al: The experimental infection of Cebus apella sp. monkeys with Trypanosoma cruzi. Its clinical, electrocardiographic and anatomic pathological assessment. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop 25:1, 1992
11. Falasca CA, Grana DR, Mareso EA, et al: Electrocardiographic changes in chronic Trypanozoma cruzi infected Cebus apella monkeys. Arq Bras Cardiol 56:4, 1991
12. Anderson S, Pahlm O, Bacharova L, et al: Standards for the function of an academic 12- lead electrocardiographic core laboratory. J Electrocardiol 34:1, 2001.
13. Cookey JD, Dunn M, Massie E: Clinical Vectocardiography and Electrocardiography (ed 2). Chicago, IL, Year Book Medical Publisher Inc., 1977
14. Devereux RB, Alonso OR, Lutas EM, et al: Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy: Comparison to necropsy findings. Am J Cardiol 57:450, 1986
15. Crawford MH, Walsh RA, Cragg D, et al: Echocardiographic left ventricular mass and function in the hypertensive baboon: Hypertension 10:339, 1987
16. Rumberger J, Behrencbeck T, Bell MR, et al: Determination of ventricular ejection fraction: A comparison of available methods. Mayo Clin Pro 172:860, 1997
17. Marin-Neto JA, Maciel BC, Simóes MV: Chagas' disease, in Rose BD, Podrid PJ, Gersh BJ (eds): Up to Date in Cardiovascular Medicine, a CD ROM Textbook. Wellesley, MA, 1998
18. Maguire JH, Hoff R, Sherlock I, Guimaraes AC, et al: Cardiac morbidity and mortality due to Chagas' disease: Prospective electrocardiographic study of a Brazilian community. Circulation 75:6, 1987
19. Andrade ZA, Andrade SG, Oliveira GB, et al: Histopathology of the conducting tissue of the heart in Chagas' myocarditis. Am Heart J 95:316, 1978
20. Morris SA, Tanowitz HB, Wittner M, et al: Pathophysiological insights into the cardiomyopathy of Chagas' disease. Circulation 82:6, 1990
21. Rossi MA: Patterns of myocardial fibrosis in idiopathic cardiomyopathies and chronic chagasic cardiopathy. Can J Cardiol 7:287, 1991
22. Rosembaum MB: Chagasic myocardiopathy. Prog Cardiovasc Dis 7:199, 1964
23. Chou T: Atrioventricular; Concealed Conduction; Gap Phenomenon, in Chou T (ed): Electrocardiography in Clinical Practice (ed 4). Philadelphia, PA, Saunders, 1996, p 448
24. Armenti A, Migliore R, Guerrero F, et al: Valor pronóstico de las ondas Q en la enfermedad de Chagas Crónica. Rev Arg Card 55:72, 1987