Difference between revisions of "Chagas disease"

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*Depends on phase of infection.
*Depends on phase of infection.
*[[cardiac arrhythmia|Arrhythmia]]s (late).
*[[cardiac arrhythmia|Arrhythmia]]s (late).
*Toxic megacolon.<ref name=pmid1467905>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Kobayasi | first1 = S. | last2 = Mendes | first2 = EF. | last3 = Rodrigues | first3 = MA. | last4 = Franco | first4 = MF. | title = Toxic dilatation of the colon in Chagas' disease. | journal = Br J Surg | volume = 79 | issue = 11 | pages = 1202-3 | month = Nov | year = 1992 | doi =  | PMID = 1467905 }}</ref>
*[[Toxic megacolon]].<ref name=pmid1467905>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Kobayasi | first1 = S. | last2 = Mendes | first2 = EF. | last3 = Rodrigues | first3 = MA. | last4 = Franco | first4 = MF. | title = Toxic dilatation of the colon in Chagas' disease. | journal = Br J Surg | volume = 79 | issue = 11 | pages = 1202-3 | month = Nov | year = 1992 | doi =  | PMID = 1467905 }}</ref>
*Chagas disease esophagopathy.<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Vicentine | first1 = FP. | last2 = Herbella | first2 = FA. | last3 = Allaix | first3 = ME. | last4 = Silva | first4 = LC. | last5 = Patti | first5 = MG. | title = Comparison of idiopathic achalasia and Chagas' disease esophagopathy at the light of high-resolution manometry. | journal = Dis Esophagus | volume = 27 | issue = 2 | pages = 128-33 | month = Feb | year = 2014 | doi = 10.1111/dote.12098 | PMID = 23795824 }}</ref>
**[[Achalasia]]-like pathology with dilation of the esophagus.


Dx:<ref>URL: [http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/diagnosis.html http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/diagnosis.html]. Accessed on: 4 December 2011.</ref>
Dx:<ref>URL: [http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/diagnosis.html http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/chagas/diagnosis.html]. Accessed on: 4 December 2011.</ref>
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