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      Reativação da infecção por Trypanosoma cruzi em paciente com síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida Translated title: Reactivation of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

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          Uma paciente com síndrome de imunodeficiência adquirida (SIDA) e doença de Chagas, com xenodiagnóstico positivo, estava em uso prolongado de cetoconazol com o objetivo de suprimir a parasitemia e prevenir a reativação da doença de Chagas. O cetoconazol foi suspenso inadvertidamente após 6 meses de uso. Um mês após, a paciente foi internada com febre, cefaléia, vômitos, taquicardia e hepatoesplenomegalia. Tanto o xenodiagnóstico como o exame de sangue a fresco demonstraram a presença de Trypanosoma cruzi. O tratamento com benzonidazol foi instituído, com supressão da parasitemia. A paciente desenvolveu concomitantemente uma provável neurotoxoplasmose, evoluindo para o óbito em septicemia. À necropsia, não foram encontrados parasitas.

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          A patient with AIDS and asymptomatic Chagas's disease and positive xenodiagnosis was taking ketoconazole in order to supress parasitemia and prevent reactivation of Chagas's disease. Ketoconazole was unplanned suspended after 6 months, and the patient was admitted with fever, headache, vomiting, tachycardia, postural hypotension, hepatosplenomegaly, and positive xenodiagnosis one month later. Treatment with benzonidazole was begun leading to supression of parasitemia. The patient had probabily a neurotoxoplasmosis associated and progressed to coma and death with sepsis. No parasite was found in autopsy.

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            Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of Chagas' disease: status in the blood supply in endemic and nonendemic countries.

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              Follow-up of 18 patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection and chronic Chagas' disease, with reactivation of Chagas' disease causing cardiac disease in three patients

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                Journal
                rsbmt
                Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
                Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.
                Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT (Uberaba )
                1678-9849
                June 1999
                : 32
                : 3
                : 291-294
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                [1 ] Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Brazil
                Article
                S0037-86821999000300011
                10.1590/S0037-86821999000300011
                d1d0ec69-7296-4f6c-9373-1c313e48dbab

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                TROPICAL MEDICINE

                Infectious disease & Microbiology
                HIV,AIDS,Chagas' disease,Trypanosoma cruzi,Myocarditis,Meningoencephalitis,SIDA,Doença de Chagas,Miocardite,Meningoencefalite

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