Mode of death in chronic systolic heart failure: Chagas cardiomyopathy versus systemic arterial hypertension

Int J Cardiol. 2014 Jul 1;174(3):818-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.142. Epub 2014 Apr 21.

Authors

Reinaldo B Bestetti¹, Ana Paula Otaviano², João Paulo Fantini², Augusto Cardinalli-Neto², Marcelo A Nakazone², Paulo R Nogueira²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto City, Brazil. Electronic address: rbestetti44@gmail.com.
² Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital de Base, São José do Rio Preto City, Brazil.

PMID: 24794968
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2014.04.142

No abstract available

Keywords: Betablockers; Chagas disease: heart failure; Mode of death; Sudden cardiac death; Systemic arterial hypertension.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Chagas Disease / complications*
Chagas Disease / epidemiology*
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / epidemiology*
Heart Failure / epidemiology*
Heart Failure, Systolic / etiology*
Heart Failure, Systolic / mortality*
Humans
Hypertension / complications*
Hypertension / epidemiology*