Perioperative management of a patient with Chagas disease having mitral valve surgery.
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.
Leckie
Robert S
RS
Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA. rleckie@bidmc.harvard.edu
Leckie
Steven
S
Mahmood
Feroze
F
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