Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy
The objective of this work was to verify the degree and type of heart damage of elderly chagasic patients seen at an outpatient referral center and to compare them with the changes found in young chagasic patients with a similar degree of heart damage. Elderly and young patients without advanced car...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:bc5428061ecc488787214266e72cb63a 2023-05-15T15:05:45+02:00 Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy Manoel Otávio Costa Rocha Paulo César Correia Márcio Vinícius L. Barros Rosália Moraes Torres Antônio Luiz P. Ribeiro Mauro Martins Teixeira 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/bc5428061ecc488787214266e72cb63a EN eng Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822003000500001&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9849 1678-9849 https://doaj.org/article/bc5428061ecc488787214266e72cb63a Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 36, Iss 5, Pp 545-550 (2003) Chagas' disease Chagasic cardiomyopathy Cardiovascular function Elderly Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 article 2003 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T03:20:23Z The objective of this work was to verify the degree and type of heart damage of elderly chagasic patients seen at an outpatient referral center and to compare them with the changes found in young chagasic patients with a similar degree of heart damage. Elderly and young patients without advanced cardiopathy presented good functional behavior. Elderly patients with advanced cardiopathy had more ventricular premature beats (VPB) in 24 h and less functional capacity in the exercise test than young patients of the same subgroup. There was a higher occurrence of effort-induced VPB and a lower prevalence of severe forms in elderly men, suggesting that Chagas' disease may have a worse evolution in males. The association of cardiac damage characteristic of aging with the secondary damage due to Chagas' disease could explain the greater functional damage found in elderly chagasic patients. Thus, it appears that the physiopathological components of Chagas' disease do have an influence on the clinical course of cardiopathy in the elderly population. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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The objective of this work was to verify the degree and type of heart damage of elderly chagasic patients seen at an outpatient referral center and to compare them with the changes found in young chagasic patients with a similar degree of heart damage. Elderly and young patients without advanced cardiopathy presented good functional behavior. Elderly patients with advanced cardiopathy had more ventricular premature beats (VPB) in 24 h and less functional capacity in the exercise test than young patients of the same subgroup. There was a higher occurrence of effort-induced VPB and a lower prevalence of severe forms in elderly men, suggesting that Chagas' disease may have a worse evolution in males. The association of cardiac damage characteristic of aging with the secondary damage due to Chagas' disease could explain the greater functional damage found in elderly chagasic patients. Thus, it appears that the physiopathological components of Chagas' disease do have an influence on the clinical course of cardiopathy in the elderly population. |
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Manoel Otávio Costa Rocha Paulo César Correia Márcio Vinícius L. Barros Rosália Moraes Torres Antônio Luiz P. Ribeiro Mauro Martins Teixeira |
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Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy |
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Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy |
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Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy |
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Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy |
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cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy |
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