[Erythema nodoso in reactivation of Chagas' disease after cardiac transplantation].
We report a patient with Chagas' disease that presented Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation after cardiac transplantation and immunodepression, characterized by skin lesions of erythema nodosum. This is an unusual presentation of Chagas' disease.
d'Avila
Solange Corrêa Garcia Pires
SC
Departamento de Patologia e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto, SP.
d'Avila
Antônio Miguel Morena Pires
AM
Pagliari
Carla
C
Gonçalves
Verônica M
VM
Duarte
Maria Irma Seixas
MI
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002598:Chagas Cardiomyopathy / Q000601:surgery*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004893:Erythema Nodosum / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D016027:Heart Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D009547:Nifurtimox / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012008:Recurrence; D014344:Trypanocidal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014349:Trypanosoma cruzi / Q000302:isolation & purification
D014344:Trypanocidal Agents; D009547:Nifurtimox