Myocardial dysfunction in chagasic patients with no apparent heart disease;Disfunção miocárdica em pacientes chagásicos sem cardiopatia aparente

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Pinto, Airandes De Sousa ^a,b   De Oliveira, Braulio Muzzi Ribeiro ^a   Botoni, Fernando Antonio ^a   Ribeiro, Antonio Luiz Pinho ^a   Rocha, Manoel Otavio Da Costa ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chagas cardiomyopathy; Chagas disease; Ventricular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; SEROLOGY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART CONTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 41149136655     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2007001800006     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. I Reunião de Pesquisa Aplicada em Doença de Chagas: validade do conceito de forma indeterminada de doença de Chagas. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 1985; 18: 46.
2. Tei C, Nishimura RA, Seward JB, Tajik AJ. Noninvasive Doppler-derived myocardial performance index: correlation with simultaneous measurements of cardiac catheterization measurements. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1997; 10: 169-78.
3. Moyssakis I, Tzanetea R, Tsaftaridis P, Rombos I, Papadopoulos DP, Kalotychou V, et al. Systolic and diastolic function in middle aged patients with sickle β thalassaemia: an echocardiographic study. Postgrad Med J. 2005; 81: 711-4.
4. Veselka J, Procházková S, Bolomová-Homolová I , Duchoňová R, Tesař D. Effects of alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy on Doppler Tei Index: a midterm follow-up. Echocardiography. 2005; 22: 105-9.
5. Seyfarth HJ, Pankau H, Hammerschmidt S, Schauer J, Wirtz H, Winkler J. Bosentan improves exercise tolerance and Tei Index in patients with pulmonary hypertension and prostanoid therapy. Chest. 2005; 128: 709-13.
6. Teichholz LE, Kreulen T, Herman MV, Gorlin R. Problems in echocardiographic volume determinations: echocardiographic-angiographic correlations in the presence of absence of asynergy. Am J Cardiol. 1976; 37: 7-11.
7. Tei C, Ling LH, Hodge DO, Bailey KR, Oh JK, Rodeheffer RJ, et al. New index of combined systolic and diastolic myocardial performance: a simple and reproducible measure of cardiac function - a study in normals and dilated cardiomyopathy. J Cardiol. 1995; 26: 357-66.
8. Tei C, Dujardin KS, Hodge DO, Bailey KR, McGoon MD, Tajik AJ, et al. Doppler echocardiographic index for assessment of global right ventricular function. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1996; 9: 838-47.
9. Coura JR, Anunziato N, Willcox, HP. Morbidade da doenca de Chagas: I - estudo de casos procedentes de vários estados do Brasil, observados no Rio de Janeiro. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1983; 78: 363-72.
10. Pereira JB, Willcox HP, Coura JR. Morbidade da doença de Chagas: III. estudo longitudinal de seis anos em Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brasil. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1985; 80: 63-71.
11. Ianni BM, Arteaga E, Frim CC, Pereira Barretto AC, Mady C. Chagas' heart disease: evolutive evaluation of electrocardiographic and echocardiographic parameters in patients with the indeterminate form. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2001; 77: 59-62.
12. Dias JC. The indeterminate form of human chronic Chagas' disease: a clinical epidemiological review. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 1989; 22: 147-56.
13. Kloetzel K, Dias JC. Mortality in Chagas' disease: life table for the period 1949-1967 in an unselected population. Rev Inst Med Trop São Paulo. 1968; 10: 5-8.
14. Prata A. Clinical and epidemiological aspects of Chagas disease. Lancet Infect Dis. 2001; 1: 92-100.
15. Lopes ER, Chapadeiro E, Andrade ZA, Almeida HO, Rocha A. Anatomia patológica dos corações de chagásicos assintomáticos falecidos de modo violento. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1981; 76: 189-97.
16. Scalabrini A, Cardoso A, Andrade SG, Andrade ZA. Correlação clínicopatológica na forma indeterminada da doença de Chagas experimental do cão. Arq Bras Cardiol. 1996; 67: 385-8.
17. Mady C, Pereira-Barretto AC, Ianni BM, Lopes EA, Pileggi F. Right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy in undetermined form of Chagas' disease. Angiology. 1984; 35: 755-9.
18. Andrade, Z. Immunopathology of Chagas disease. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz. 1999; 94: 71-80.
19. Bellini AJ, Santos RC, Bilac A. Prova de esforço na forma sub-clínica da doença de Chagas. Arq Bras Cardiol. 1977; 30: 261.
20. Mady C, Yasbek P Jr , Pereira Barretto AC , Vianna CB, Serro-Azul LG, Bellotti G, et al. Estudo da capacidade funcional máxima pela ergoespirometria em pacientes portadores da doença de Chagas. Arq Bras Cardiol. 1986; 47: 201-5.
21. Marins N, Flores AP, Seixas TN, da Costa Fagundes J, Ostrowsky M, De Marco Martins A, et al. Estudo da forma indeterminada da doença de Chagas através da eletrocardiografia dinâmica. Arq Bras Cardiol. 1982; 39: 303-7.
22. Giorgi MC, Meneguetti JC, Hironaka FH, Barretto AC, Arteaga-Fernandez E, Bellotti, et al. Quantificação de captação miocárdica de Gálio 67 em pacientes portadores de doença de Chagas. Arq Bras Cardiol. 1985; 45: 132.
23. Ribeiro AL, Moraes RS, Ribeiro JP, Ferlin EL, Torres RM, Oliveira E, et al. Parasympathetic dysautonomia precedes left ventricular systolic dysfunction in Chagas disease. Am Heart J. 2001;141: 260-5.
24. Combellas I, Puigbo JJ, Acquatella H, Tortoledo F, Gomez JR. Echocardiographic features of impaired left ventricular diastolic function in Chagas's heart disease. Br Heart J. 1985; 53: 298-309.
25. Barros MV, Rocha MO, Ribeiro AL, Machado FS. Doppler tissue imaging to evaluate early myocardium damage in patients with undetermined form of Chagas' disease and normal echocardiogram. Echocardiography. 2001; 18: 131-6.
26. de Almeida-Filho OC, Maciel BC, Schmidt A, Pazin-Filho A, Marin-Neto JA. Minor segmental dyssynergy reflects extensive myocardial damage and global left ventricle dysfunction in chronic Chagas disease. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2002; 15: 610-6.
27. Ribeiro ALP, Rocha MOC. Forma indeterminada da doença de Chagas: considerações acerca do diagnóstico e do prognóstico. Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 1998; 31: 301-14.
28. Nishimura RA, Housmans PR, Hatle LK, Tajik AJ. Assessment of diastolic function of the heart: background and current applications of Doppler echocardiography. Part I. Physiologic and pathophysiologic features. Mayo Clin Proc. 1989; 64: 71-81.
29. Lax JA, Bermann AM, Cianciulli TF, Morita LA, Masoli O, Prezioso HA. Estimation of the ejection fraction in patients with myocardial infarction obtained from the combined index of systolic and diastolic left ventricular function: a new method. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2000; 13: 116-23.
30. Schiller NB, Shah PM, Crawford M, DeMaria A, Devereux R, Feigenbaum H, et al. Recommendations for quantitation of the left ventricle by two-dimensional echocardiography. American Society of Echocardiography Committee on Standards, Subcommittee on Quantitation of Two-Dimensional Echocardiograms. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 1989; 2: 358-67.
31. Moller JE, Sondergaard E, Poulsen SH, Appleton CP, Egstrup K. Serial Doppler echocardiographic assessment of left and right ventricular performance after a first myocardial infarction. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2001; 14: 249-55.
32. Chockalingam A, Gnanavelu G, Alagesan R, Subramaniam T. Myocardial performance index in evaluation of acute right ventricular myocardial infarction. Echocardiography. 2004; 21: 487-94.
33. Sato T, Harada K, Tamura M, Watanabe A, Ishii M, Takada G. Cardiorespiratory exercise capacity and its relation to a new Doppler index in children previously treated with anthracycline. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2001; 14: 256-63.
34. Palloshi A, Fragasso G, Silipigni C, Locatelli M, Cristell N, Pala MG. Early detection by the Tei index of carvedilol-induced improved left ventricular function in patients with heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 2004; 94: 1456-9.
35. Nearchou NS, Tsakiris AK, Lolaka MD, Karatzis EN, Tsiafoutis IN, Flessa CD, et al. Influence of Angiotensin II receptors blocking on overall left ventricle's performance of patients with acute myocardial infarction of limited extent. Echocardiographic assessment, Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2005; 191-8.
36. Nunes MC, Barbosa MM, Brum V.A, Rocha MOC. Análise morfofuncional do ventrículo direito na miocardiopatia dilatada chagásica. Rev Bras Ecocardiogr. 2002; 15: 59-63.
37. Marin-Neto JA, Marzullo P, Sousa AC, Marcassa C, Maciel BC, Iazigi N, et al. Radionuclide angiographic evidence for early predominant right ventricular involvement in patients with Chagas' disease. Can J Cardiol. 1988; 4: 231-6.