Current vision of a disease with high mortality that is progressively dispersing throughout the world: Chagasic heart disease

Abstract

The sympathetic denervation studies and the studies of microvascular involvement are the most important tools for early detection of Chagas heart disease. Especially the 123I-123I-MIBGSPECT or 11C-meta-hydroxyephedrine-PET studies since everything starts from sympathetic denervation. Also it is advisable to insist on the assessment of other parameters of early involvement of left ventricular systolic function to understand the importance of the additional information provided by the analysis of the parameters of ventricular remodeling, synchrony, and GLS in patients with normal left ventricular ejection fraction and in the absence of ventricular dilatation for early detection of myocardial dysfunction.