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The accuracy of respiratory muscle strength in identifying systolic dysfunction in patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy.
Disabil Rehabil
November 2024
Postgraduate Course of Reabilitação e Desempenho Funcional, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Diamantina, Brazil.
Purpose: To verify the accuracy of respiratory muscle strength in identifying systolic dysfunction in patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy (ChC), and to validate optimal cutoff points based on respiratory muscle strength.
Methods: First, 72 patients with ChC were enrolled and underwent echocardiography and assessment of respiratory muscle strength by manovacuometry. Inspiratory and expiratory muscle strength was defined by maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) and maximal expiratory pressure (MEP), respectively.
Functional predictors of poor outcomes in Chagas cardiomyopathy: The value of end-tidal carbon dioxide at peak exercise.
Heart Lung
July 2023
Postgraduate Course of Reabilitação e Desempenho Funcional, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Diamantina, Brazil; Postgraduate Course of Health Sciences, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM), Diamantina, Brazil. Electronic address:
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the prognostic value of end-tidal carbon dioxide at peak exercise (PETCO peak) in patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy (ChC), revealing its potential to identify risks of adverse events.
- Seventy-six ChC patients were monitored over four years, with results showing that a PETCO peak value of ≤ 32 mmHg indicated a significantly higher risk of cardiovascular complications, based on a multivariate analysis.
- The findings suggest that both reduced PETCO peak and VO2 can be used to improve risk assessment and inform treatment strategies for patients suffering from ChC.
A 25-year study of gastroschisis outcomes in a middle-income country.
J Pediatr Surg
July 2019
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Pediatric Surgical Service, Hospital das Clínicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais/Empresa, Brasileira, de Serviços Hospitalares. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Background: Survival of newborns with gastroschisis is significantly higher in high-income versus low and middle-income countries. We reviewed treatment and outcomes of gastroschisis in a middle-income country setting with increasing protocolized management.
Methods: All newborns with gastroschisis treated during the period 1989-2013 at a single Brazilian academic surgical service were studied retrospectively.
Six-minute walk test and incremental shuttle walk test in the evaluation of functional capacity in Chagas heart disease.
J Exerc Rehabil
October 2018
Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School and Hospital das Clínicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Chagas heart disease (CHD) leads to a progressive functional impairment. Field tests, as the 6-min walk test (6MWT) and the incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT), may be inexpensive approaches in the evaluation of functional capacity of these patients. The present study was addressed to compare the 6MWT and the ISWT measures, and to determine the accuracy of these tests in the identification of functional impairment in patients with CHD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe prognostic value of health-related quality of life in patients with Chagas heart disease.
Qual Life Res
January 2019
Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School and Hospital das Clinicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Avenida Alfredo Balena, 190, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, 30.130-100, Brazil.
Purpose: To verify the prognostic value of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and the differences in HRQoL and clinical variables between groups of Chagas heart disease (CHD) patients with and without cardiovascular adverse events.
Methods: Seventy-five CHD patients were evaluated by echocardiography, maximal exercise testing, and Short-form of Health Survey (SF-36) Questionnaire. Patients were followed during 6 years.
Prediction of peak oxygen uptake in patients with Chagas heart disease: Value of the Six-minute Walk Test.
Int J Cardiol
February 2017
Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School and Hospital das Clinicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Prevalence and risk factors of embolic cerebrovascular events associated with Chagas heart disease.
Glob Heart
September 2015
Postgraduate Course of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School and Hospital das Clinicas of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Background: Patients with Chagas disease are at increased risk for stroke that may result in major clinical disability and death. Identification of risk factors involved in the genesis of thromboembolic events related to this disease may lead to improved therapeutic decision making and outcomes.
Objectives: This study sought to assess the prevalence of ischemic cerebrovascular events (ICE) among patients with Chagas heart disease and to identify the risk factors associated with cardioembolism in this population.