Usefulness of polymerase chain reaction strategies for early diagnosis of Chagas disease reactivation and treatment follow-up in heart transplantation

DIEZ M; FAVALORO L; BURGOS JM; PERADEJORDI M; BERTOLOTTI A; VIGLIANO C; SCHIJMAN AG; FAVALORO RR

JOURNAL OF HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2007 vol. 26 p. 223 - 224

1053-2498

Reactivation (R) of Chagas disease is one of the main complications in chagasic patients after heart transplant (HTx).The sensitivity of parasitological methods is low; therefore more sensitive methods are needed. We evaluated the usefulness of two different PCR methods for early diagnosis of R and follow-up of treatment response.