Estimación de Daño de Miocardio Producido por el Mal de Chagas Mediante Técnicas no Invasivas

Chagas’ disease affects about 10 million people in Latin America. It is mainly transmitted by the faeces of triatomine bugs. The illness in humans can be recognized with a conventional Machado-Guerreiro test. However, it evolves in different stages. To determine the miocardial damage inflicted by the disease in the chronic stage it is necessary to perform several expensive, time consuming and sometimes even inva- sive tests.