作者
María Fernanda Alvarez, Adrián Bolívar-Mejía, Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales, Eduardo Ramirez-Vallejo
发表日期
2017
来源
F1000Research
卷号
6
出版商
Faculty of 1000 Ltd
简介
Background: In the last three years, chikungunya virus disease has been spreading, affecting particularly the Americas, producing more than two million cases. In this setting, not only new disease-related epidemiological patterns have been found, but also new clinical findings have been reported by different research groups. These include findings on the cardiovascular system, including clinical, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic alterations. No previous systemic reviews have been found in major databases about it.
Methods: We performed a systematic review looking for reports about cardiovascular compromise during chikungunya disease. Cardiac compromise is not so common in isolated episodes; but countries where chikungunya virus is an epidemic should be well informed about this condition. We used 6 bibliographical databases as resources: Medline/Pubmed, Embase, ScienceDirect …
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