Myocardial Delayed Enhancement in Chagas Heart Disease: Ready for the Clinical Arena?

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¹ Institut Clínic Cardio-Vascular (ICCV), Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; and the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: ana.garcia@cnic.es.

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Ana García-Álvarez. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018.

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. 2018 Nov 27;72(21):2588-2590.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.034.

¹ Institut Clínic Cardio-Vascular (ICCV), Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; and the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC), Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: ana.garcia@cnic.es.

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Keywords: Chagas; delayed enhancement; magnetic resonance; prognosis.

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