%0 Journal Article
%T Trastornos digestivos secundarios a enfermedad de Chagas en 40 egresos con diagn車stico de megacolon, fecaloma, obstrucci車n intestinal o acalasia en el Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau (Santiago, Chile) durante el a o 1999 CHAGAS DISEASE IN 40 CLINICAL FILE CASES WITH MEGACOLON, FECALOMA, INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION OR ACHALASIA, FROM THE BARROS LUCO TRUDEAU HOSPITAL (SANTIAGO. CHILE) 1999
%A BERNARDO LOPEZ
%A LEONARDO LIDID
%A EVELYN SANCHEZ
%A INES ZULANTAY
%J Parasitolog赤a al d赤a
%D 2001
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X La revisi車n de fichas cl赤nicas del a o 1999 en el Hospital Barros Luco Trudeau, permiti車 pesquisar 40 casos con diagn車stico principal al egreso de megacolon, fecaloma, obstrucci車n intestinal o acalasia. En un solo caso de megacolon pesquisado ese a o, se confirm車 la etiolog赤a chag芍sica mediante serolog赤a convencional anti-Trypanosoma cruzi. La baja incidencia en esta casu赤stica es debida a que este servicio hospitalario es una zona de baja endemia chag芍sica, a falencias en los registros y a la falta de sospecha cl赤nica In 1999, the examination of clinical files of Barros Luco Trudeau Hospital, allow as to investigate 40 cases with megacolon, fecaloma, intestinal obstruction or achalasia as main out go diagnosis. Only in one case of megacolon inquired in 1999 chagasic ethiology was confirmed by serology. The low incidence in this group, is caused by the fact that this hospital attend persons of zones of low chagasic endemia, with mistakes in the registers and lack of clinical suspicious
%K Trypanosoma cruzi
%K Trypanosomosis
%K Chagas disease
%K Megacolon
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