INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Chronic Chagas' @entity299 is an important public health problem in Latin America. Rural migration from endemic to nonendemic countries has aroused widespread interest (United States, Spain) because of the possibility of observing affected @entity1 . METHODS: Review of recent literature. RESULTS: The diagnosis of @entity296 is based on the triad of epidemiological history, positive serology and the clinical @entity1526 . About 75% of asymptomatic seropositive subjects had no or almost no @entity299 but the disease could be transmitted by blood donation. The other 25% may develop @entity943 , @entity712 and/or @entity887 . Specific parasiticidal drugs are mainly used in the acute phase. CONCLUSIONS: In countries where @entity1526 is infrequent, @entity1 may be inadvertently diagnosed as having primary dilated or @entity296 . Disease reactivation in immunodepressed @entity1 due to @entity791 , chemotherapy for @entity5 or for organ transplantation constitutes a formidable clinical challenge. Sanitary prophylactic measures are the strategies of choice.

[Heart pathology of extracardiac origin (V). Recent advances in chagasic XXXX ].

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity791 :: ('MESH:D000163', 'Disease') :: ['AIDS'] @entity296 :: ('MESH:D009202', 'Disease') :: ["Chagas' cardiomyopathy", 'ischemic cardiomyopathy'] @entity712 :: ('MESH:D006333', 'Disease') :: ['heart failure'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['cancer'] @entity1526 :: ('MESH:D014355', 'Disease') :: ["Chagas' syndrome", "Chagas' disease"] @entity887 :: ('MESH:D004617', 'Disease') :: ['embolisms'] @entity299 :: ('MESH:D006331', 'Disease') :: ['heart damage', 'heart disease'] @entity943 :: ('MESH:D001145', 'Disease') :: ['arrhythmias']
@entity296 :: (MESH:D009202,Disease) :: ['cardiomyopathy']
