Abstract

SANABRIA GARITA, José Alejandro; MALCA REATEGUI, Enrique; RAMIREZ CHAVES, Juan José  and  FUENTES MOLINA, Edgar. Chronic chagasic lethal cardiomyopathy in young women to be studying for Acute Coronary Syndrome after an event Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia. Rev. costarric. cardiol [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1-2, pp.17-24. ISSN 1409-4142.

Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a systemic infection caused by protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi’s, which has a high association with economic and social situations bordering. Mortality rates in patients with symptomatic heart failure due to Chagas are as high as 63% and 84% at 5 and 10 years, respectively. The main causes of death in patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy are divided as refractory heart failure in first, followed by sudden death and cerebrovascular event in second and third place respectively. In the following article we present the case of a patient whose manifestation of Chagas cardiomyopathy was a tachyarrhythmic event, followed by a literature review of a disease whose incidence in our country is unknown and resurgent outside regions endemic product of migration and globalization.

Keywords : Chagasic Cardiomyopathy; heart failure; sustained ventricular tachycardia..

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