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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:
●(See "Society guideline links: Heart failure in adults".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Arrhythmias in adults".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Atrial fibrillation".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Supraventricular arrhythmias".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Ventricular arrhythmias".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Cardiac valve disease".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Cardiomyopathy".)
●(See "Society guideline links: Myocarditis".)
International
●World Hearth Federation (WHF) and Inter-American Society of Cardiology (IASC): Roadmap on Chagas disease (2020)
●Pan American Health Organization (PAHO): Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of Chagas disease (2019)
United States
●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Chagas disease – For health care providers
•Clinical care of Chagas disease
•Clinical considerations for congenital Chagas disease
•Clinical testing and diagnosis for Chagas disease
●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease) (2024)
●US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Federally approved clinical practice guidelines for HIV/AIDS – Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in adults and adolescents with HIV: Chagas disease (2024)
●US Chagas Diagnostic Working Group: Recommendations for screening and diagnosis of Chagas disease in the United States (2022)
●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on tissue and blood protozoa including toxoplasmosis, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, Babesia, Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, and Naegleria in solid organ transplant recipients (2019)
●American Heart Association (AHA): A scientific statement on Chagas cardiomyopathy – An update of current clinical knowledge and management (2018)
●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), InterAmerican Association of Echocardiography (ECOSIAC), and Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC): Recommendations for multimodality cardiac imaging in patients with Chagas disease (2018)
Brazil
●Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC): Guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cardiomyopathy of Chagas disease (2023)
●Brazilian Society of Tropical Medicine (SBMT): Guidelines for Trypanosoma cruzi-HIV co-infection and other immunosuppressive conditions – Diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and implementation from the International Network of Care and Studies (2023)
●American Society of Echocardiography (ASE), InterAmerican Association of Echocardiography (ECOSIAC), and SBC: Recommendations for multimodality cardiac imaging in patients with Chagas disease (2018)
●Brazilian Cardiovascular Imaging Department (DIC) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI): An expert consensus on multimodality imaging evaluation of Chagas disease (2017)
●SBMT: 2nd Brazilian consensus on Chagas disease, 2015 (published 2016)
Europe
●Brazilian Cardiovascular Imaging Department (DIC) and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI): An expert consensus on multimodality imaging evaluation of Chagas disease (2017)
