Sudden Death is Uncommon in Chronic Chagas Disease without Evident Heart Disease

Abstract

In 2012, our group published a systematic review (1)in this Journal, analyzing the available updated evidenceabout the incidence of sudden death (SD) in theindeterminate phase of Chagas disease.On that occasion, a bibliographic search in Pubmedand SciELO was performed until March 2011using the following keywords: “Chagas” and “follow-up Studies [MeSH] or prognos*[Text Word] orpredict*[Text Word] or course*[Text Word]”. Thissearch provided 1,058 articles, 19 of which compliedwith the initial search criteria, and only 15 includedenough data to constitute a group of asymptomatic indeterminatechagasic patients with normal ECG.