Abstract

With the purpose of lo establish the sta- tus of the oesophagus with respect to chagasic aendemia in subjects of the central rural zone of Argentine, we seurch the esophagic evacuation duration-time by means of a radiologic standardized test which studied the ingcstcd barium transit as well us the caliber of a given oesophagus. 87 chagasic subjects from rural zones of Cordoba and Santiago del Estero, Argentina , were studied. AlI had severa positive serological test for Chagas' infection.As controls 120 similar studies performed in subjects with negative serological tests for Chagas were considered. Besides, anhistopathologic study on samples of oesophagus of four cases of chagasic patients deceased by different causes, and selected at random were performed, regarding the plexus of Auerbach and the muscle layers.

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