Stroke correlates in chagasic and non-chagasic cardiomyopathies.

BACKGROUND: Aging and migration have brought changes to the epidemiology and stroke has been shown to be independently associated with Chagas disease. We studied stroke correlates in cardiomyopathy patients with focus on the chagasic etiology. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We performed a cross-sec...

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Main Authors: José Alberto Martins da Matta, Roque Aras, Cristiano Ricardo Bastos de Macedo, Cristiano Gonçalves da Cruz, Eduardo Martins Netto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3327657?pdf=render