Cardiovascular function in elderly patients with chronic chagasic cardiopathy

The objective of this work was to verify the degree and type of heart damage of elderly chagasic patients seen at an outpatient referral center and to compare them with the changes found in young chagasic patients with a similar degree of heart damage. Elderly and young patients without advanced car...

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Main Authors: Manoel Otávio Costa Rocha, Paulo César Correia, Márcio Vinícius L. Barros, Rosália Moraes Torres, Antônio Luiz P. Ribeiro, Mauro Martins Teixeira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2003-10-01
Series:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86822003000500001&tlng=en