Using a Chagas disease hospital database: a clinical and epidemiological patient profile
Bruscato, Andressa; Pereira, Mariane Barroso; Archilia, Mariana Degaki; Teodoro, Thassia Mariane; Almeida, Eros Antônio de; Martins, Luiz Cláudio; Peloso, Eduardo de Figueiredo; Gadelha, Fernanda Ramos.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop
; 51(6): 831-835, Nov.-Dec. 2018. graf
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION:
Chagas disease (CD) prevention and control rely on studies of its distribution, characteristics of individuals affected and mode of transmission. CD data in Brazil are scarce; a retrospective analysis of the clinical characteristics of 80 patients treated at the Clinical Hospital of UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil, was performed.METHODS:
Patient data records were analyzed.RESULTS:
Thirty percent of the patients probably got infected through vector-borne transmission, 65% came from endemic areas, a predominance of cardiac and cardiodigestive forms was found among males, and the cardiac form prevailed (51%).CONCLUSIONS:
The results update the view on the epidemiology of CD in Campinas, Brazil.
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