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Chagas disease

  • agent: Trypanosoma cruzi
  • armadillo (reservoir) --> reduviid bug (vector) --> human

  • destroys myenteric (Auerbach's) plexus of esophagus
    ==> esophageal dysmotility
  • may also involve:
    • colon ==> megacolon
    • heart ==> cardiomyopathy, CMG

  • simulates achalasia

Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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achalasia
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pseudo-achalasia
esophagitis

 

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