Abordaje diagnóstico en fase crónica de enfermedad de chagas

Abstract

Introduction: Chagas disease is a potentially fatal parasitic zoonosis, it is endemic to South America, and our country it has a large percentage of infected people, one of the characteristics of this disease is that a high number of infected are asymptomatic at the beginning of the disease, in addition to This pathology progresses slowly, developing changes at the anatomical and physiological level years later. At the cardiac level, chagasic heart disease is the primary etiology of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, in relation to gastrointestinal complications, megaesophagus or chagasic megacolon occurs, and in more extreme cases cardiodigestive manifestations can occur. At this stage, imaging diagnosis management is of fundamental importance for adequately treating of the infection. Objective: Describe the imaging tests that will allow us to diagnose Chagas disease in the chronic stage, through a bibliographic review for the correct diagnosis of this pathology. Methodology: The study is carried out descriptively through a bibliographic review in the scientific bases of SCIELO, EBSCO, PUBMED, and MESH, with information available from 2016 to the present for the extraction of qualitative data, compiling information on the relationship between traumatology in medicolegal cases. Conclusion: The diagnosis of T cruzi infection in relation to laboratory tests and imaging tests establishes a primary role in the diagnosis, treatment, and adequate prognosis of this pathology both in acute manifestations and in chronic manifestations such as megaesophagus, megacolon, and the chagasic heart disease.