Stroke correlates in chagasic and non-chagasic cardiomyopathies.

Authors :: José Alberto Martins da Matta
Roque Aras
Cristiano Ricardo Bastos de Macedo
Cristiano Gonçalves da Cruz
Eduardo Martins Netto
Source :: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 4, p e35116 (2012)
Publication Year :: 2012
Publisher :: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Aging and migration have brought changes to the epidemiology and stroke has been shown to be independently associated with Chagas disease. We studied stroke correlates in cardiomyopathy patients with focus on the chagasic etiology. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We performed a cross-sectional review of medical records of 790 patients with a cardiomyopathy. Patients with chagasic (329) and non-chagasic (461) cardiomyopathies were compared. There were 108 stroke cases, significantly more frequent in the Chagas group (17.3% versus 11.1%; p

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