Risk stratification by CMR in Chagas' disease
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Risk stratification by CMR in Chagas' disease
Chagas’ disease (CD) still remains an important health problem in Latin America. Cardiac involvement in CD is associated wiht a high mortality and morbidity and one of the major challenges is to identify high risk patients.Therefore a risk score to predict death in CD was recently developed and validated by Rassi and colleagues. Considering the hole of myocardial fibrosis(MF) on the pathogenesi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1532-429X
DOI: 10.1186/1532-429x-13-s1-p293