| [acute chagas cardiopathy. a systematic study of the intracardiac excitatory-conduction and autonomic nervous systems in an autochthonous case in acre]. | the histopathology of the heart is described in an acute case of chagas' disease (dc). lesions involving the conducting system (sc) and the autonomic intracardiac nervous system (snaic) are emphasized. light microscopy showed acute pan-carditis with plenty of trypanosoma cruzi amastigotes within heart muscle cells. multiple inflammatory foci were found in the sc with parasitic nests within the atrioventricular node and left his bundle. there were also severe atrial periganglionitis and perineuri ... | 1996 | 8768587 |