A patient with dextrocardia and chagas disease: case report and literature review

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العنوان: A patient with dextrocardia and chagas disease: case report and literature review
المؤلفون: Mario Javier Olivera, Julián Felipe Porras-Villamil
المصدر: Case reports. 7:50-61
بيانات النشر: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Chagas disease, Dextrocardia, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Lower limb edema, business.industry, medicine.disease, Chest pain, Situs inversus, Etiology, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Medicine, Proper treatment, In patient, medicine.symptom, business, General Environmental Science
الوصف: Introduction: About half a million patients in Colombia are currently infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. However, little is known about patients with Chagas disease and anatomical defects such as dextrocardia. Case presentation: A 52-year-old male patient with a 4-year history of dyspnea, chest pain, lower limb edema and syncope (requiring hospitalization), arrhythmias and dextrocardia, underwent serological tests for T. cruzi that were positive. A literature review was conducted to find case reports of patients with dextrocardia or situs inversus and Chagas disease in order to determine the proper treatment. Conclusion: Cases of patients with dextrocardia and Chagas disease are rare. Besides the reported case, only three other cases were found in the literature, which were relatively similar, although they could be considered more severe. According to the findings, the use of etiological treatment is acceptable in patients with coronary anatomic abnormalities and T. cruzi infection. The present case draws attention to the importance of adequately approaching and monitoring this type of patient.
تدمد: 2462-8522
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::69a733cac49522679581d429078be81c
https://doi.org/10.15446/cr.v7n1.86469
حقوق: OPEN
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