Late Reactivation of Chagas' Disease Presenting in a Recipient as an Expansive Mass Lesion in the Brain after Heart Transplantation of Chagasic Myocardiopathy

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1091-1096

  Marchiori, Paulo Euripedes ^a   Alexandre, Paula Levatti ^a   Britto, Nise ^a   Patzina, Roseli A ^a   Fiorelli, A Alfredo ^a   Lucato, Leandro T ^a   Rosemberg, Sergio ^a   Pereira, Samira L Apostolos ^a   Stolf, Noedir Groppo ^a   Scaff, Milberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BENZNIDAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; NIFURTIMOX; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHAGAS CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENCEPHALITIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 36049021829     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.07.043     Document Type: Article

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