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Correspondence
Re: Cardioprotective manifestations of chronic helminth infections: new aspects of an old disease
  1. Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes1,2,
  2. Milton Henriques Guimarães-Júnior2,
  3. Adriana Costa Diamantino2,
  4. Claudio Leo Gelape2,
  5. Teresa Cristina A Ferrari1,2
  1. 1 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  2. 2 Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
  1. Correspondence to Dr Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Ludgero Dolabela 801, 601, Gutierrez, Belo Horizonte 3.04301e+007, Brazil; mcarmo{at}waymail.com.br

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We would like to thank Professor Abdoli and Professor Rasti1 for their comments and interest in our article,2 and the editors of Heart for giving us the opportunity to reply.

The purpose of our recently published review on cardiac manifestations of parasitic disease2 was to update the current knowledge on the major heart diseases caused by …

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  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.