Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha MendesFundação Oswaldo Cruz | FIOCRUZ · Instituto de pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas (IPEC)
Fernanda de Souza Nogueira Sardinha Mendes
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Purpose
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) on functional capacity of patients with chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCC) and to compare the responses between CCC patients without and with heart failure (HF).
Materials and methods
A longitudinal observational retrospective study was carrie...
Background
Chagas disease (CD) is a neglected endemic disease with worldwide impact due to migration. Approximately 50–70% of individuals in the chronic phase of CD present the indeterminate form, characterized by parasitological and/or serological evidence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection, but without clinical signs and symptoms. Subclinical abnorma...
Studies investigating the association between functional capacity and quality of life (QoL) in individuals with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) usually do not include a gold-standard evaluation of functional capacity, limiting the validity and the interpretation of the results. The present study is a cross-section analysis aiming to evaluate th...
This guideline aimed to update the concepts and formulate the standards of conduct and scientific evidence that support them, regarding the diagnosis and treatment of the Cardiomyopathy of Chagas disease, with special emphasis on the rationality base that supported it.
Chagas disease in the 21st century maintains an epidemiological pattern of ende...
Background: The recent urbanization of Chagas disease (CD) has contributed to a greater risk of coexistence with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS.
Methods: This retrospective observational study included patients who were followed at INI-Fiocruz between July 1986 and October 2021. All patients underwent an assessment protocol that inclu...
Background: The identification of variables obtained in the exercise test (ET) associated with increased risk of death is clinically relevant and would provide additional information for the management of Chagas disease (CD). The objective of the present study was to evaluate the association of ET variables with mortality in patients with chronic C...
As a result of globalization and constant migratory flows, Chagas disease is now present in almost all continents. The management and treatment of the disease is often influenced by the economic and social context of the societies that host patients. In this manuscript, we aim to provide a comparative review of approaches to patients with Chagas di...
Objectives:
The present study aimed to perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of an exercise-based cardiovascular rehabilitation (CR) program in patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC).
Methods:
Cost-effectiveness analysis alongside a randomized clinical trial evaluating the effects of a 6-month exercise-based CR program. The interventi...
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Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate acute and subacute hemodynamic responses and perception of effort in individuals with CCC submitted to different IMT protocols.
Materials and methods: This was a randomized cross-over trial conducted on CCC subjects with systolic left ventricular dysfunction (<45% left ventricular ejection fraction) without or...
The COVID-19 virus infection caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, in March 2020. Until the end of 2021, 504,399 COVID-19 cases were confirmed in RJ, and the total death toll reached 68,347. The Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (INI-Fiocruz) is a referr...
Background:
Mother-to-child transmission of Chagas disease (CD) has become a relevant problem in both endemic and non-endemic areas.
Methods:
Description of the CUIDA Chagas Project - Communities United for Innovation, Development and Attention for Chagas disease'.
Results:
Through innovative and strategic research, this project will provide i...
Background
Patients with chronic Chagas disease (CD) cardiomyopathy have a high mortality. We evaluated if two-dimensional (2D) strain (ε) parameters provide independent predictors of progression to CD cardiomyopathy and all-cause mortality.
Methods
A total of 408 patients with chronic CD (58.6% women; 53 ± 11 years; clinical forms: indeterminate...
Background: We investigated the mortality rates of patients with Chagas disease (CD) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and assessed the association between this mortality and CD clinical presentation and comorbidities.
Methods: This was an observational retrospective study with clinical data retrieved from medical records.
Res...
Chagas heart disease (CHD) affects approximately 30% of patients chronically infected with the protozoa Trypanosoma cruzi. CHD is classified into four stages of increasing severity according to electrocardiographic, echocardiographic, and clinical criteria. CHD presents with a myriad of clinical manifestations, but its main complications are sudden...
Introduction:
We aimed to describe the sociodemographic, epidemiological, and clinical characteristics of patients with chronic Chagas disease (CD) at an infectious disease referral center. Changes in patient profiles over time were also evaluated.
Methods:
This retrospective study included patients with CD from November 1986-December 2019. All...
The increase in life expectancy and the migration of individuals with Chagas disease (ChD) from rural to urban centers exposes them to the development of chronic-degenerative abnormalities that may increase the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS). The present study aimed to identify the prevalence of MetS and its components in individuals with...
Background
Chagas heart disease (CHD) impairs the systemic microvascular function. We investigated the effects of exercise training on cutaneous microvascular function among patients with CHD.
Methods
Patients from the PEACH study were randomly assigned to a supervised exercise training 3 times/week for 6 months (Trained; n = 10) or a control grou...
OBJECTIVES To describe the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of participants as well as discontinuation and mortality rates in a cardiac rehabilitation programme (CRP) tailored to Chagas disease (CD).
METHODS Participants underwent functional capacity, anthropometry and cardiac function evaluations before beginning a CRP. Univariate and...
Covid-19 is a novel infectious disease whose spectrum of presentation ranges from absence of symptoms to widespread interstitial pneumonia associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), leading to significant mortality. Given the systemic pattern of Covid-19, there are many factors that can influence patient's functional capacity after a...
Background
Chagas disease (CD) remains an important endemic disease in Latin America. However, CD became globalized in recent decades. The majority of the chronically infected individuals did not receive etiologic treatment for several reasons, among them the most conspicuous is the lack of access to diagnosis. The impact of trypanocidal treatment...
Objectives
To describe the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of participants as well as discontinuation and mortality rates in a cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) tailored to Chagas disease (CD).
Methods
Participants underwent functional capacity, anthropometry and cardiac function evaluations before beginning a CRP. Univariate and...
Background
Atrial fibrillation (AF) carries ominous consequences in patients with Chagas disease. The aim of this study was to determine whether left atrial (LA) volume and function assessed using three-dimensional echocardiographic (3DE) imaging and two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiographic deformation analysis of strain (ε) could predict...
Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) represents the most serious manifestation of the chronic phase of Chagas disease. Currently diagnosis of CCC is based on typical electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities in patients with positive Trypanosoma cruzi serology. Regarding CCC severity stratification, there are five different classifications: Kuschnir, Br...
Chagas disease is an important infection in Latin America but it is also reported in non-endemic countries all over the world. Around 30% of infected patients develop chronic Chagas cardiopathy, which is responsible for most poor outcomes, mainly heart failure, arrhythmias and thromboembolic events. Of all thromboembolic events, stroke is the most...
Chronic Chagas disease can progress to myocardial involvement with intense fibrosis, which may predispose patients to sudden cardiac death through ventricular arrhythmia. The associations of myocardial fibrosis detected by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) parameters with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT) were evaluated. This cross-sectio...
Most patients with chronic Chagas disease (CD) present the indeterminate form and are at risk to develop the cardiac form. However, the actual rate of progression to the cardiac form is still unknown.
Methods:
In total, 550 patients with the indeterminate CD form were followed by means of annual electrocardiogram at our outpatient clinic. The stu...
Chronic Chagas’ cardiomyopathy is the most severe and frequent manifestation of Chagas disease, and has a high social and economic burden. New imaging modalities, such as strain echocardiography, nuclear medicine, computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, may detect the presence of myocardial fibrosis, inflammation or sympathetic...
Chagas heart disease (HD) is a chronic fibrosing myocarditis with high mortality. The PEACH study aimed to evaluate if exercise training can improve the functional capacity of Chagas HD patients with left ventricular dysfunction and/or heart failure. The PEACH study was a single center, parallel-group, clinical trial that randomized 30 clinical sta...
Chronic Chagas heart disease has different clinical manifestations including arrhythmias, heart failure, and stroke. Chest pain is one of the most common symptoms and when associated with changes in the electrocardiogram, such as T-wave changes, electrically inactive areas, and segmental wall motion abnormalities, may lead to a misdiagnosis of acut...
OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the quality of life (QoL) of patients with Chagas disease (CD) and the association between QoL domains and several clinical, socioeconomic and lifestyle characteristics of this population.
METHODS
Cross‐sectional observational study conducted from March 2014 to March 2017 including a total of 361 outpatients followed at Evan...
Background:
Chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) and cardiomyopathies due to other etiologies involve differences in pathophysiological pathways that are still unclear. Systemic microvascular abnormalities are associated with the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease. However, systemic microvascular endothelial function in CCC remains to be elucid...
A Doença de Chagas é considerada uma das maiores descobertas da medicina do século XX. Seu descobridor, Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro das Chagas, a descreveu em 1909. São apresentados os trabalhos científicos publicados por Carlos Chagas, colaboradores diretos e outros autores, que abrangem o período de 1909, ano da descoberta, até 1956 quando em tese...
INTRODUCTION:
We evaluated the effects of a cardiac rehabilitation program on quality of life.
METHODS
This secondary analysis of a single-arm study included 12 patients with Chagas heart failure. The cardiac rehabilitation program comprised exercise training and nutritional and pharmaceutical counseling. Quality of life was assessed using the SF-...
Background:
The effects of exercise training on Chagas heart disease are still unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of exercise training over functional capacity, cardiac function, quality of life, and biomarkers in Chagas heart disease.
Methods:
The PEACH study is a superiority randomized clinical trial which will include subjects w...
Introduction::
The benefit of a cardiac rehabilitation (CR) program for patients with Chagas heart failure (CHF) remains unclear. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the effects of CR for CHF patients.
Methods::
A single-arm pilot study, including 12 patients with CHF, was performed. Patients participated in an 8-month physical exercise intervent...
Background:
Studies on atrial fibrillation (AF) in decompensated heart failure (DHF) are scarce in Brazil.
Objectives:
To determine AF prevalence, its types and associated factors in patients hospitalized due to DHF; to assess their thromboembolic risk profile and anticoagulation rate; and to assess the impact of AF on in-hospital mortality and ho...
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
There are no available data addressing the potential clinical risks of open-water swimming competitions.
Address the risks of hypothermia and hypoglycemia during a 10-km open-water swimming competition in order to alert physicians to the potential dangers of this recently-introduced Olympic event.
This was an observational cross-sectional study, co...
Following a randomized, cross-over, and double-blind design, 14 patients with coronary heart disease were submitted, to maximal cardiopulmonary exercise tests on a treadmill, 2 h after the oral administration of either placebo or pyridostigmine bromide (45 mg), a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor. One observer, who was blind to the experimental c...
Projects
Projects (4)
The role of exercise in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular events is recognized and accepted by numerous health organizations, and it is an important non-drug therapy for several groups of heart diseases. Despite the recognized benefits of exercise, few studies have evaluated the effects of this type of intervention in patients with chronic Chagas' heart disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of physical training on functional capacity, cardiac function, respiratory muscle strength, body composition and clinical biomarkers in chronic Chagas' heart disease.
