Pulmonary Findings in Patients with Chagasic Megaesophagus

摘要: We studied retrospectively 69 cases of chagasic megaesophagus (group 1) and 207 chronic myocardiopathy (CCM) without 2) by autopsy in the Pathology Department Federal University Bahia, Brazil, from 1953 to 1975. It was shown that pulmonary tuberculosis significantly more frequent group 1 (21.7 percent) than 2 (3.4 percent). The patients 1, who had associated cardiomyopathy (n = 36), a much higher rate (36.1 those with CCM (6.0 percent), they also most severe forms disease. Other complications infectious origin occurred frequently 1. prevalence pneumonia 34.7 percent land 10 2. Six were considered be aspiration pneumonia. Lung abscess two each group. suggest should carefully investigated for complications, especially populations high this infection.