Simultaneous occurrence of acute myocarditis and reactivated Chagas' disease in a patient with AIDS

Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
A M C SartoriM Amato Shikanai-Yasuda

Abstract

Myocarditis is not an uncommon finding in autopsy series of patients with AIDS, although clinically important myocarditis is rarely noted. We describe a 50-year-old woman with AIDS and chronic chagasic megaesophagus, without previous cardiac abnormalities, who experienced reactivation of Chagas' disease, characterized by the finding of Trypanosoma cruzi via direct microscopic examination of the buffy coat, xenodiagnosis, and blood culture; she developed fatal acute myocarditis. Reactivation of Chagas' disease in patients with AIDS has been reported, but in the great majority of cases it has been associated with central nervous system involvement. In areas where Chagas' disease is endemic, reactivation may occur in patients with AIDS.

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