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Relato de Casos • Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. 38 (1) • Feb 2005 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822005000100013   copy

Erythema nodoso in reactivation of Chagas' disease after cardiac transplantation

Solange Corrêa Garcia Pires d'Ávila Antônio Miguel Morena Pires d'Ávila Carla Pagliari Verônica M. Gonçalves Maria Irma Seixas Duarte About the authors

We report a patient with Chagas' disease that presented Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation after cardiac transplantation and immunodepression, characterized by skin lesions of erythema nodosum. This is an unusual presentation of Chagas' disease.

Chagas' disease; Cardiac transplantation; Erythema nodosum; Trypanosoma cruzi reactivation

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