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Aortic distensibility measured by pulse-wave velocity is not modified in patients with Chagas' disease

BACKGROUND: Experimental studies demonstrate that infection with trypanosoma cruzi causes vasculitis. The inflammatory lesion process could hypothetically lead to decreased distensibility of large and small arteries in advanced Chagas' disease. We tested this hypothesis. METHODS AND RESULTS: We...

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Autores principales: Villacorta, Humberto, Bortolotto, Luiz Aparecido, Arteaga, Edmundo, Mady, Charles
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1524983/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16768804
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-5751-5-9
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