Chagas disease in Latin American immigrants with dilated cardiomyopathy in New York City.

Kapelusznik, Luciano; Varela, Deborah; Montgomery, Susan P; Shah, Arti N; Steurer, Francis J; Rubinstein, David; Caplivski, Daniel; Pinney, Sean P et al. · Clin Infect Dis · 2013

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

Chagas disease-associated cardiomyopathy is clinically similar to other causes of cardiomyopathy and, therefore, the diagnosis can be easily overlooked. We found a 13% point prevalence of Chagas disease in a sample of New York City immigrants with dilated cardiomyopathy.

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