Chagas heart disease in professional athletes from endemic countries: A notorious case calls attention for its identification and stratification

Int J Cardiol. 2016 Mar 15:207:115-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.01.106. Epub 2016 Jan 9.

Authors

Henrique Horta Veloso¹, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno², Mauro Felippe Felix Mediano²

Affiliations

¹ Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: hhorta@cardiol.br.
² Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

PMID: 26800129
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.01.106

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac arrest; Chagas disease; Sport; Sudden cardiac death.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Review

MeSH terms

Adult
Athletes*
Brazil / epidemiology
Chagas Disease / diagnosis
Chagas Disease / epidemiology*
Endemic Diseases*
Humans
Latin America / epidemiology
Male
Neglected Diseases / epidemiology*
Retrospective Studies
Soccer*