Recommendations for Multimodality Cardiac Imaging in Patients with Chagas Disease: A Report from the American Society of Echocardiography in Collaboration With the InterAmerican Association of Echocardiography (ECOSIAC) and the Cardiovascular Imaging Department of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (DIC-SBC)

Affiliations

¹ Centro Medico de Caracas, San Bernardino, Caracas, Venezuela.
² Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia.
³ Socor Hospital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Faculdade de Saúde e Ecologia Humana, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁶ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Fundacion Cardiovascular de Colombia, Floridablanca, Colombia.
⁸ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁹ Interventional Cardiology Unit, Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰ Hospital Eva Perón, San Martin, Argentina.
¹¹ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹² McMaster University, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
¹³ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹⁴ Heart Institute, São Paulo University Medical School, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.

Review

Harry Acquatella et al. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2018 Jan.

. 2018 Jan;31(1):3-25.

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2017.10.019.

¹ Centro Medico de Caracas, San Bernardino, Caracas, Venezuela.
² Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia.
³ Socor Hospital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁴ Faculdade de Saúde e Ecologia Humana, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁶ University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Fundacion Cardiovascular de Colombia, Floridablanca, Colombia.
⁸ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁹ Interventional Cardiology Unit, Medical School of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰ Hospital Eva Perón, San Martin, Argentina.
¹¹ Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
¹² McMaster University, Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
¹³ Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
¹⁴ Heart Institute, São Paulo University Medical School, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac magnetic resonance; Cardiomyopathy; Chagas; Echocardiography; Heart failure; Left ventricular aneurysm.

Comment in

JASE 3.0: Entering Our 4^th Decade.
Picard MH. Picard MH. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2018 Jan;31(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2017.11.001. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2018. PMID: 29306362 No abstract available.