[Chagas disease--review of 8 simultaneous cases of acute Chagas myocarditis: 25 years later].
OBJECTIVE
To analyse the evolution of 8 cases of Chagas' disease after a microepidemy of 17 cases which occurred in Teotonia-RS-in 1965 and to discuss the importance of oral contamination in Chagas' disease.


METHODS
All 8 patients are followed at the IC/FUC-RS-Brazil since 1980. Clinical examinations, blood tests, ECG, Cx-Ray and Echo were made in 1991.


RESULTS
None of the eight cases presented any sign of chronic Chagas' disease manifestation. The blood tests, ECG, Cx-Ray and Echo were normals. Only one case showed a immunofluorescence of 1/20.


CONCLUSIONS
1) The follow-up after 25 years in all the 8 cases did not show clinical alterations or any chronic manifestation of Chagas' disease. All the tests performed had normal results; 2) the oral transmission must be considered definitive in Chagas' disease.
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Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Fundação Universitária de Cardiología, Porto Alegre.
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002598:Chagas Cardiomyopathy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000635:transmission; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
Doença de Chagas--revisão de 8 casos simultâneos de miocardite aguda chagásica: 25 anos após.