Does a spontaneous cure for chagas' disease exist?
Six Costa Rican Chagas' disease patients, with wellknown acute phase history and no specific treatment were examined in several occasions during 39, 24, 32, 16 and 14 years, respectively, from the onset. Nome of the patients presented heart abnormalities as revealed by the conventional EKG and...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:1bcc75f082f04baf90cc00f951d49ba2 2023-05-15T15:04:23+02:00 Does a spontaneous cure for chagas' disease exist? Rodrigo Zeledón João Carlos P. Dias A. Brilla-Salazar J. Marcondes de Rezende Luis G. Vargas Andrea Urbina 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86821988000100003 https://doaj.org/article/1bcc75f082f04baf90cc00f951d49ba2 EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821988000100003&lng=en&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 1678-9849 doi:10.1590/S0037-86821988000100003 https://doaj.org/article/1bcc75f082f04baf90cc00f951d49ba2 Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 15-20 (1988) Tripanosomiase americana Doença de Chagas Cura espontânea Estudo longitudinal Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 1988 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86821988000100003 2022-12-31T02:53:15Z Six Costa Rican Chagas' disease patients, with wellknown acute phase history and no specific treatment were examined in several occasions during 39, 24, 32, 16 and 14 years, respectively, from the onset. Nome of the patients presented heart abnormalities as revealed by the conventional EKG and ergometry, exceptfor one of them with an incomplete block of the right bundle branch. Also, no alterations of the oesophagus motility was detected manometrically except for another patient who presented a slight hypersensivity reaction to a pharmacological test (Mecholyl). Three out of six patients became serologically negative in 1981, remaining as such until 1986. Besides the conventional serology, the search of protective ("lytic") antibodies was also performed in 1985 and 1986, being completely negative in one of the "cured" patients and dubious in the other two. The hypothesis that these three patients had as spontaneous cure, based on the clinical, serological and parasitologica l findings is discussed. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 21 1 15 20 |
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Six Costa Rican Chagas' disease patients, with wellknown acute phase history and no specific treatment were examined in several occasions during 39, 24, 32, 16 and 14 years, respectively, from the onset. Nome of the patients presented heart abnormalities as revealed by the conventional EKG and ergometry, exceptfor one of them with an incomplete block of the right bundle branch. Also, no alterations of the oesophagus motility was detected manometrically except for another patient who presented a slight hypersensivity reaction to a pharmacological test (Mecholyl). Three out of six patients became serologically negative in 1981, remaining as such until 1986. Besides the conventional serology, the search of protective ("lytic") antibodies was also performed in 1985 and 1986, being completely negative in one of the "cured" patients and dubious in the other two. The hypothesis that these three patients had as spontaneous cure, based on the clinical, serological and parasitologica l findings is discussed. |
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