title: Perioperative management of a patient with Chagas disease having mitral valve surgery.
abstract: A patient with advanced Chagas disease presented with symptoms attributable to dilated cardiomyopathy and mitral regurgitation. Although esophageal involvement is part of the constellation of findings in Chagas, transesophageal echocardiography was safely used to guide the mitral valve surgery.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. rleckie@bidmc.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Leckie
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Leckie
authors.forename: Feroze
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mahmood
mesh_terms: D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D002598:Chagas Cardiomyopathy / Q000601:surgery; D014355:Chagas Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008944:Mitral Valve Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D019990:Perioperative Care / Q000379:methods