Ana Carolina Bastos de Lima, Veronica Gonçalves Mendes, Roberto Rodrigues Ferreira, Lindice Mitie Nisimura, Samuel Iwao Maia Horita, Henrique H Veloso, Andréa R Costa, Gilberto Marcelo S da Silva, Luiz Henrique C Sangenis, Marcelo T Holanda, Lorena Rimolo, Ademir B Cunha, Luciana Ribeiro Garzoni, Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher-Moreno, Mauro Felippe F Mediano, Otacílio da Cruz Moreira, Constança Britto, Roberto M Saraiva
BACKGROUND: A positive Trypanosoma cruzi polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is associated with a worse prognosis in patients with chronic Chagas disease (CD). OBJECTIVES: To study the association of clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic characteristics and biomarker blood levels with positive T. cruzi PCR in chronic CD. METHODS: This is a single-centre observational cross-sectional study. Positive T. cruzi PCR association with clinical, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic characteristics, and biomarker blood levels were studied by logistic regression analysis...
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