Chagas disease and systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian patients in Switzerland
BACKGROUND Chronic cardiomyopathy occurs in 20-40% jazzy select gt parts of the patients with Chagas disease.Autoimmune mechanisms may contribute to its pathogenesis.We diagnosed several cases of systemic autoimmune diseases among Bolivian migrants in Geneva with a high prevalence of Chagas disease.OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis of a clinical