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Carcinoid Heart Disease. [PDF]
J Adv Pract OncolCarcinoid heart disease (CHD) is a rare but potentially life-threatening sequela of advanced neuroendocrine neoplasm with carcinoid syndrome. These tumors can secrete vasoactive substances of which serotonin is the most prevalent. Carcinoid heart disease typically involves the right-sided heart valves and eventually leads to right heart failure ...
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Carcinoid Heart Disease Associated with Primary Ovarian Carcinoid Tumor: A Rare Presentation
Heart ViewsPrimary ovarian carcinoid tumors, an extremely rare subset of ovarian malignancies (
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Quadruple Valve Replacement for Carcinoid Heart Disease [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2018 Introduction: Carcinoid heart disease most frequently involves the tricuspid or, more rarely, the pulmonary valve and presents with right heart failure as 5-HT is metabolized by the lung. Left-sided valve involvement is quite rare.
Syed Saleem Mujtaba, Stephen Clark
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Carcinoid Heart Disease and a Complicated Course of Progressive Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasia: A Case Report [PDF]
Case Reports in OncologyIntroduction: Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (GEP-NETs) are a relatively rare, heterogenous group of malignancies originating from secretory cells of the neuroendocrine system. Carcinoid syndrome is a complication of neuroendocrine tumours,
Farah Aliyah Mohd Nasri +2 more
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Autopsy and Case Reports, 2013 The images are of the tricuspid valve and the pulmonic valve from the autopsy of a patient with mid-gut neuroendocrine carcinoma, carcinoid pattern, extensively metastatic to the liver.
Stephen A. Geller +1 more
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Multimodality imaging in carcinoid heart disease [PDF]
Open Heart, 2019 Neuroendocrine neoplasms arise from the gastrointestinal tract and can lead to carcinoid syndrome. Carcinoid heart disease affects more than half of these patients and is the initial presentation of carcinoid syndrome in up to 20 % of patients. Carcinoid
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Carcinoid Heart Disease on Computed Tomography
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2020 Teaching Point: Carcinoid tumors can release hormones responsible of cardiac valves fibrosis known as carcinoid heart disease.
Jean-Philippe Hardy, Benoît Ghaye
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Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2014 The patient, C.P., is a 59-year-old woman who was diagnosed with metastatic carcinoid of the terminal ileum in May 2003. In June 2003, she underwent an extensive resection including hemicolectomy, cholecystectomy, distal pancreatectomy, and splenectomy with metastatic disease in her pancreas, mesentery, and liver.
Ingrid do Rosário +4 more
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Use of perioperative telotristat in a patient with carcinoid heart disease [PDF]
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Case ReportsCarcinoid heart disease is a rare complication of carcinoid syndrome, resulting in right-sided valvular heart disease and subsequent heart failure due to long-term exposure to vasoactive substances.
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Carcinoid heart disease: A pictorial report
Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2017 Carcinoid tumors are rare, mostly seen in gastrointestinal tract and bronchus. Carcinoid heart disease occurs in up to half of these patients with characteristic involvement of right-sided valves.
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