1F53.2
category
Chronic Chagas disease with heart involvement
Definition
A disease caused by a chronic infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. This disease commonly presents with severe malaise or cardiac involvement (such as cardiomyopathy, cardiac failure, thromboembolism, bradyarrhythmias, tachyarrhythmias, apical aneurysms, or cardiac arrest). Transmission is by direct contact with faeces from an infected triatomine bug, vertical transmission, iatrogenic transmission, or ingestion of contaminated food or water. Confirmation is by identification of Trypanosoma cruzi in a blood sample.
Inclusions
- Chagas' disease with myocarditis
Also indexed as
American trypanosomiasis with heart involvementChagas' disease with myocarditisChagas-Mazza diseaseChronic Chagas disease with cardiovascular involvement, not elsewhere classifiedChronic Chagas disease with heart involvementchronic Chagas disease NOSinflammatory cardiomyopathy due to Chaga disease