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The students thought
that the patient’s flank pain was due to renal infarcts
caused by emboli from the left ventricular
mural thrombus associated with the apical left
ventricular aneurysm. Ischemic heart disease was
ruled out by the normal ECG and coronary angiogram.
We considered sarcoidosis, but this only
rarely affects both the gastrointestinal tract and
the heart. Amyloidosis can cause cardiac-conduction
defects and thrombi, and neuromuscular and
mucosal infiltration of the gastrointestinal tract
could lead to colonic dysmotility. However, the
diagnosis that best explains the findings is American
trypanosomiasis, or Chagas’ disease, with an
isolated left ventricular aneurysm,cardiac arrhythmias,