Catalog

Chagas' disease with myocarditis

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

Chagas' disease with myocarditis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/689394562

Myocarditis due to Chagas disease is inflammation of the heart muscle generally in the presence of a dilated cardiomyopathy that results from exposure to external antigens originating from an infection with the flagellate protozoan trypanosoma cruzi. It is a chronic tropical parasitic disease.