Stroke History and Chagas Disease Are Independent Predictors of Silent Cerebral Microembolism in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure - Concepedia

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Stroke History and Chagas Disease Are Independent Predictors of Silent Cerebral Microembolism in Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

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2010

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Pedro Antônio Pereira de Jesus, Iuri Santana Neville, Carolina Cincurá, Daniela F. Menezes, Rodrigo M. Vieira-de-Melo, Amanda Mota Lacerda, Leila C. Viana, Davidson França Pereira, Valter Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Francisco José Farias Borges dos Reis,

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Abstract

Chagas disease and stroke history are risk factors for MES independent of cardiac disease severity. Other mechanisms besides structural cardiac disease may be operative, increasing embolic risk in Chagas disease.

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