[An autopsy case of sudden death due to Chagas' disease].
An autopsy case of sudden death of a 41-year-old male Brazilian with Chagas' disease in reported. In his life time, right handle branch block and ventricular premature contractions were marked in electrocardiogram. Autopsy revealed striking dilatation of both cardiac ventricles. Histopathologically, extensive myocardial fibrosis due to chronic interstitial myocarditis was observed. On myocardial tissue preparation performed Giemsa's stain, leishmania foci of Trypanosoma crusi were detected around the myocardial fibrosis.
Nishimura
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Department of Legal Medicine, Siga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
Ueno
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Y
Fujiwara
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Nushida
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Tatsuno
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Y
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002598:Chagas Cardiomyopathy / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000473:pathology; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000302:isolation & purification