title: [Electrocardiographic alterations in persons with a positive serology for toxoplasmosis].
abstract: To each of 11,161 randomly taken people from urban and peri-urban localities of the first seven regions of Chile (geographic area of distribution of Chagas' disease in the country), with negative serology for Chagas' disease, an indirect hemagglutination test (IHAT) for toxoplasmosis and an EKG were practiced. The IHAT for toxoplasmosis resulted positive in 3,519 individuals (31.5%). The EKG showed alterations in 10.9% of the IHAT positive individuals and in 7.9% of the IHAT negative ones. This difference between the proportion of altered EKG in IHAT positive people and altered EKG in those with negative IHAT is statistically significative with p < 0.001. These results suggest the convenience of considering toxoplasmosis as a cause of chronic myocardiopathy in epidemiological studies on Chagas' disease, since not discard the presence of Toxoplasma gondii infection should overvaluete the magnitude of the impact of Trypanosoma cruzi in the genesis of such a myocardiopathy.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schenone
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Contreras
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Salinas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sandoval
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pérez-Olea
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Solís
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Villarroel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014123:Toxoplasmosis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*
vernacular_title: Alteraciones electrocardiográficas en personas con serología positiva para toxoplasmosis.