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Infectious Disease: Chagas Disease

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Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Chagas Disease in the United States: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023 Sep 11:tpmd230361. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.23-0361. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTChagas disease affects approximately 300,000 patients in the United States. We evaluated a multicenter U.S.-based network to obtain clinical characteristics and outcomes of chronic Chagas disease by disease forms. This was a U.S.-based, multicenter, population-based, retrospective cohort study. We queried TriNetX, a global research network, to identify patients with dual-positive IgG serology for Trypanosoma cruzi. We captured outcomes of interest for up to 5 years. We found 429 patients with evidence of dual-positive T. cr...
Source: Am J Trop Med Hyg - September 11, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Andr és F Henao-Martínez Christian Olivo-Freites Nelson I Agudelo Higuita Carolina Ferraz Carlos Franco-Paredes Jose Tuells Laila Woc-Colburn Salvador Villalpando-Carri ón Daniel B Chastain Anis Rassi Source Type: research

Association of left ventricular abnormalities with incident cerebrovascular events and sources of thromboembolism in patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy
Although Chagas cardiomyopathy is related to thromboembolic stroke, data on risk factors for cerebrovascular events in Chagas disease is limited. Thus, we assessed the relationship between left ventricular (LV...
Source: Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance - November 3, 2022 Category: Radiology Authors: Henrique Turin Moreira, Gustavo Jardim Volpe, Gustavo Marques Mesquita, Maria Fernanda Braggion-Santos, Antonio Pazin-Filho, Jos é Antonio Marin-Neto and André Schmidt Tags: Research Source Type: research

IL-1 β is not critical to chronic heart dysfunction in mice with Chagas disease
In conclusion, the absence of functional IL-1β/IL-1R signaling did not prevent or reverse the decrease of SV or the incidence of cardiac arrhythmias induced by chronic T. cruzi infection, implying this is not a critical mechanism in generating or maintaining CCC. Since similar cardiac abnormalities were previously credited to IL-1β signaling, ruling out this mechanism is important to discourage further attempts of IL-1β blockade as a therapeutical measure.
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - October 14, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Platelets, Macrophages, and Thromboinflammation in Chagas Disease
J Inflamm Res. 2022 Oct 4;15:5689-5706. doi: 10.2147/JIR.S380896. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTChagas disease (CD) is a major health problem in the Americas and an emerging health problem in Europe and other nonendemic countries. Several studies have documented persistence of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and oxidative and inflammatory stress are major pathogenic factor. Mural and cardiac thrombi, cardiac arrhythmias, and cardiomyopathy are major clinical features of CD. During T. cruzi infection, parasite-released factors induce endothelial dysfunction along with platelet (PLT) and immune-cell activation. PLTs hav...
Source: Cell Research - October 11, 2022 Category: Cytology Authors: Subhadip Choudhuri Nisha J Garg Source Type: research