Search Results - "Salles Xavier, Sergio"
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Temporal changes in the clinical-epidemiological profile of patients with Chagas disease at a referral center in Brazil
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-01-2021)“…INTRODUCTIONWe aimed to describe the sociodemographic, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics of patients with chronic Chagas disease (CD) at an…”
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Progression Rate from the Indeterminate Form to the Cardiac Form in Patients with Chronic Chagas Disease: Twenty-Two-Year Follow-Up in a Brazilian Urban Cohort
Published in Tropical medicine and infectious disease (12-05-2020)“…Most patients with chronic Chagas disease (CD) present the indeterminate form and are at risk to develop the cardiac form. However, the actual rate of…”
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A protocol update for the Selenium Treatment and Chagasic Cardiomyopathy (STCC) trial
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (19-09-2018)“…Several studies evaluating clinical forms of chronic Chagas disease show that about one-third of patients present cardiac involvement. Heart failure, sudden…”
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Morbidity of Chagas heart disease in the microregion of Rio Negro, Amazonian Brazil: a case-control study
Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (01-12-2013)“…A case-control study on the morbidity of Chagas heart disease was carried out in the municipality of Barcelos in the microregion of the Rio Negro, state of…”
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FIRST REPORT OF ACUTE CHAGAS DISEASE BY VECTOR TRANSMISSION IN RIO DE JANEIRO STATE, BRAZIL
Published in Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo (01-07-2015)“…Chagas disease (CD) is an endemic anthropozoonosis from Latin America of which the main means of transmission is the contact of skin lesions or mucosa with the…”
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Effect of Physical Exercise Training in Patients With Chagas Heart Disease (from the PEACH STUDY)
Published in The American journal of cardiology (01-05-2020)“…•Exercise training improved functional capacity in Chagas heart disease.•Exercisers tolerate higher loads of exercise after 3- and 6 months of…”
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Global Longitudinal Strain Accuracy for Cardiotoxicity Prediction in a Cohort of Breast Cancer Patients During Anthracycline and/or Trastuzumab Treatment
Published in Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (01-02-2018)“…The high cardiotoxicity morbidity and mortality rates associated with the antineoplastic therapy for breast cancer could be reduced with the early use of…”
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Indeterminate form of Chagas disease: historical, conceptual, clinical, and prognostic aspects
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-01-2021)“…Chagas disease (CD) remains a serious endemic disease in Latin America and a major public health problem. Because of globalization, the disease has spread to…”
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Use of PET/CT to detect myocardial inflammation and the risk of malignant arrhythmia in chronic Chagas disease
Published in Journal of nuclear cardiology (01-12-2023)“…Chagas heart disease (CHD) is characterized by progressive myocardial inflammation associated with myocardial fibrosis and segmental abnormalities that may…”
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Cardiac Fibrosis and Changes in Left Ventricle Function in Patients with Chronic Chagas Heart Disease
Published in Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (01-12-2021)“…Chagas heart disease (CHD) is a slow progressing condition with fibrosis as the main histopathological finding. To study if cardiac fibrosis increases over…”
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Exploring the Historical Background and Clinical Implications of Electrocardiogram in the Context of Chagas Disease Research
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-01-2023)“…Chagas disease (CD) remains one of the most significant endemic diseases in Latin America. Approximately 30% of individuals with CD develop the cardiac form,…”
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Evolution of anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibody production in patients with chronic Chagas disease: Correlation between antibody titers and development of cardiac disease severity
Published in PLoS neglected tropical diseases (19-07-2017)“…Chagas disease is one of the most important endemic infections in Latin America affecting around 6-7 million people. About 30-50% of patients develop the…”
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Chagas disease in Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil: left ventricle aneurysm and the risk of death in the 24-year interval
Published in Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (01-01-2020)“…Left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) is indicator of high morbidity in Chagas' disease. A cross-sectional study performed identified LVA in 18.8% of the chronic…”
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Chagas disease mortality during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A Brazilian referral center experience
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-01-2022)“…We investigated the mortality rates of patients with Chagas disease (CD) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and assessed the association…”
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Analysis of Three-Dimensional Scar Architecture and Conducting Channels by High-Resolution Contrast-Enhanced Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Chagas Heart Disease
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-01-2022)“…BACKGROUNDWe aimed to describe the morphology of the border zone of viable myocardium surrounded by scarring in patients with Chagas heart disease and study…”
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Migration and homing of bone-marrow mononuclear cells in chronic ischemic stroke after intra-arterial injection
Published in Experimental neurology (2010)“…Cell-based treatments have been considered a promising therapy for neurological diseases. However, currently there are no clinically available methods to…”
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Synergistic Effect of Disease Severity, Anxiety Symptoms and Elderly Age on the Quality of Life of Outpatients with Heart Failure
Published in Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (01-01-2020)“…Heart failure (HF) is a multifactorial syndrome with repercussions on quality of life (QoL). To investigate the main interacting factors responsible to worsen…”
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Cardiac rehabilitation program in patients with Chagas heart failure: a single-arm pilot study
Published in Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (01-05-2016)“…The benefit of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program for patients with Chagas heart failure (CHF) remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the…”
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Aortic root ectasia in patients with acromegaly: experience at a single center
Published in Clinical endocrinology (Oxford) (01-10-2011)“…Summary Background Acromegaly is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality, and increased aortic root diameter has been recently described in the…”
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