Cardiac involvement in chagas disease

Chagas disease is an infectious caused by Trypanosoma cruzy, this a highly frequent in rural areas of Latin America, it characterized presenting two phases, acute one which often asymptomatic and with low mortality mostly conferred to myocarditis due Chagas, chronic phase consists three presentations, indeterminate, digestive cardiac, the latter being most serious cause greater complications higher patients that occur this, should be noted alterations presented at cardiac level affect heart its structural, autonomic, functional electrical conduction aspects, require specialized treatment diagnostic aids determine characteristic myocardial involvement, degree involvement patient prognosis disease.