Maria de Lourdes Higuchi

Prognostic Significance of Myocardial Fibrosis Quantification by Histopathology and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Severe Aortic Valve Disease

Clerio F. Azevedo, Marcelo Nigri, Maria de Lourdes Higuchi et al. · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2010 · 535 citations

Heart Failure, Diagnosis, Pathology +16

Correlation between Trypanosoma cruzi parasitism and myocardial inflammatory infiltrate in human chronic chagasic myocarditis: Light microscopy and immunohistochemical findings

Maria de Lourdes Higuchi, Thales de Brito, Márcia Martins Reis et al. · Cardiovascular Pathology · 1993 · 220 citations

Parasitic Protozoa, Immunohistochemical Findings, African Trypanosomiasis +6

Cardiac Gene Expression Profiling Provides Evidence for Cytokinopathy as a Molecular Mechanism in Chagas' Disease Cardiomyopathy

Edécio Cunha‐Neto, Victor J. Dzau, Paul D. Allen et al. · American Journal Of Pathology · 2005 · 182 citations · Full text

Cardiac Muscle, Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure +12

Association of an Increase in CD8+ T Cells with the Presence of Trypanosoma cruzi Antigens in Chronic, Human, Chagasic Myocarditis

Maria de Lourdes Higuchi, V D Aiello, Luiz Alberto Benvenuti et al. · American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 1997 · 178 citations

Parasitic Disease, Immunodeficiencies, Immunology +20

Immunohistochemical characterization of infiltrating cells in human chronic chagasic myocarditis: Comparison with myocardial rejection process

Maria de Lourdes Higuchi, Paulo Sampaio Gutierrez, Vera Demarchi Aiello et al. · Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin · 1993 · 168 citations

Inflammation, Cardiac Muscle, Autoimmune Disease +9