PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | chagas disease |
| Phenotype | C0878544|cardiomyopathy |
| Sentences | 6 |
| PubMedID- 24282718 | In its chronic stage, chagas disease can lead to a severe cardiomyopathy for which there is currently no cure. |
| PubMedID- 25993486 | Background: chagas disease is a cause of dilated cardiomyopathy, and information about left atrial (la) function in this disease still lacks. |
| PubMedID- 23089149 | The treatments tested in complication trials generally did not target the infectious agent but aimed to modify the pathophysiology of the complication—for example, use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) inhibitors for cardiomyopathy associated with chagas disease. |
| PubMedID- 21408088 | The same group compared 166 chronic chagas disease patients with cardiomyopathy to 80 asymptomatic patients, but observed no significant association with tnf polymorphisms [22]. |
| PubMedID- 23451183 | Elevated serum levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor are associated with progressive chronic cardiomyopathy in patients with chagas disease. |
| PubMedID- 24472559 | Chronic t. cruzi infection, resulting in chronic chagas disease can lead to cardiomyopathy due to the immune response damaging the tissues of the heart. |
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