Involvement of the autonomic nervous system in Chagas heart disease

• Main Authors: Edison Reis Lopes, Washington Luiz Tafuri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1983
• Subjects: Doença de Chagas; Tripanossomose cruzi; Cardiopatia chagásica; Sistema nervoso autônomo; Chagas' disease; Trypanosomiasis cruzi; Chagas' heart disease; Autonomic nervous system; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Aguda
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/f74fa25cddeb4135958bf936978829af

The autonomic nervous system and especially the intracardiac autonomic nervous system is involved in Chagas' disease. Ganglionitis and periganglionitis were noted in three groups ofpatients dying with Chagas'disease: 1) Those in heart failure; 2) Those dying a sudden, non violent death and...