Esophageal manometry and vectorcardiography study of asymptomatic patients with Chagas' disease

The indeterminate form of Chagas' disease is characterized by positive serology for the disease in the absence of clinical findings and in the presence of both normal esophagogram and electrocardiogram. When more sensitive methods were used, abnormalities have been described either in the esophagus or in the heart. The authors have studied simultaneously the esophagus and the heart in the same subjects. In thirteen adults with diagnosis of indeterminate form and nine adult controls, the esophageal manometry both in basal conditions and after stimulus (bethanecol) and vectorcardiogram were performed. In the control group none of the subjects presented concomitant esophageal and cardiac alterations while in the chagasic group 92,3% of the patients presented results simultaneously altered. It is concluded that the studied patients showed indications of parasympathetic denervation manifested by simultaneously esophageal and heart alterations.

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Main Authors:	Moraes-Filho,Joaquim Prado P., Moraes,Thelma A. Bombonatti P. P., Felix,Valter N., Pereira-Barreto,Antonio Carlos, Bettarello,Agostinho
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 1988
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46651988000600003
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