Abstract

GONZALEZ BLANCO, Juan Carlos; PEREZ FUENTES, Iván Alexei; BADELL POMAR, Cecilia Carlota  and  RODRIGUEZ YERO, Daimarelis. Chagas chronic disease and congestive heart failure in a young adult. MEDISAN [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.6, pp.862-865. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case report of a 41 year-old patient is described, with a history of Chagas chronic disease who was admitted in the Intensive Care Service of "El Torno" Hospital, in Santa Cruz's department, Bolivia, for presenting intense dyspnea, distal cyanosis, edemas in inferior extremities, besides tachycardia and precordial pain, what was diagnosed as an congestive decompensated heart failure, attributable to this disease. He remained in this unit during 4 days and after the medical treatment and the non-invasive artificial mechanical ventilation he had a favorable clinical course and he was discharged from the institution

Keywords : Chagas disease; decompensated heart failure; Chagas chronic cardiopathy.

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