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The indeterminate form of Chagas' disease is characterized by mild focal myocarditis representing a state of host-parasite equilibrium, while the chronic cardiac form involves progressive myocardial inflammation, fibrosis, and conduction system damage.
The pathology of chronic Chagas' disease involves a transition from a balanced host-parasite equilibrium in the indeterminate phase to progressive inflammatory and fibrotic myocardial damage in the chronic cardiac form.
May inform serial monitoring in indeterminate Chagas; leaves open triggers of progression for prospective validation.
The morphologic features of the indeterminate and the chronic cardiac forms of Chagas' disease, and their clinicai correlations, are briefly reviewed. The significance of mild focal myocarditis as the main change of the indeterminate form, the myocardial inflammation and flbrosis of the chronic cardiac form, pius the mvolvement of the conductíng system, are particularly considered.
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Zilton A. Andrade (2011) conducted a review in Chagas' disease. The indeterminate form of Chagas' disease is characterized by mild focal myocarditis representing a state of host-parasite equilibrium, while the chronic cardiac form involves progressive myocardial inflammation, fibrosis, and conduction system damage.
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