Chagas disease differentiating chagas disease from other diseases
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Raviteja Guddeti, M.B.B.S. [2]
Overview
Conditions like achalasia, myocarditis and esophagitis can be confused with Chagas disease which affects the esophagus, heart and the colon. Hepatosplenomegaly is also common in Chagas disease making it one of the differential for enlarged liver and spleen.
Differentiating Chagas disease from other Diseases
Chagas disease should be differentiated from the following diseases:
- Achalasia
- Atrioventricular Block
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
- Colonic obstruction
- Constipation
- Encephalopathy, Hypertensive
- Esophageal Cancer
- Esophageal motility disorders
- Esophageal rupture
- Esophageal spasm
- Esophagitis
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Megacolon
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocardial ischemia
- Myocarditis
- Pulmonary edema, cardiogenic
- Pulmonary embolism
- Sinus node dysfunction
- Splenomegaly
- Sudden cardiac death
- Toxoplasmosis