Acute Heart Failure Due to Chagas Disease: Still a Challenge in the 21st Century

Although new Chagas disease (CD) cases have decreased in the last decades through control of vector-borne and blood transfusion transmission, around 3,7 million Brazilians still live chronically affected by this disease. As around 30-40% of this population presents the cardiac form (CCC), and heart failure (HF) is present in about 10% of those with CCC, CD is a major cause of HF in endemic countries, ranging from 4% to 50%.– The paper by Silva et al. adds important updated epidemiological [...]