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Carcinoid Heart Disease: Starting From Heart Failure
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2017 Carcinoid syndrome is the constellation of symptoms mediated by humoral factors produced by some carcinoid tumors. It consists primarily of vasomotor symptoms, gastrointestinal hypermotility, hypotension, and bronchospasm, due to the production and ...
Nicole Bertin MD +5 more
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Primary Testicular Carcinoid Tumor presenting as Carcinoid Heart Disease
Indian Journal of Urology, 2015 Primary carcinoid tumors of the testis are very rare, and they seldom present with carcinoid syndrome. We report a hereto unreported instance, where a patient with a long-standing testicular mass presented with carcinoid heart disease, an uncommon form ...
Manjunath L Chikkaraddi +2 more
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Simultaneous surgical treatment of primary ovarian carcinoid and carcinoid heart disease
Polish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022 The incidence of neuroendocrine tumors (NET) is 2.5–5 per 100 000 population. Up to 20% of patients with NET develop carcinoid syndrome (CS), and in 40–50% of those carcinoid heart disease (CHD) is reported (0.27 per 100 000 population per year) [1 ...
Uladzimir Andrushchuk +3 more
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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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Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease as Manifestations of Non-Metastatic Ovarian Neuroendocrine Tumour [PDF]
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2017 The carcinoid syndrome is rare but it is associated with carcinoid heart disease in more than a half of the cases. Carcinoid heart disease is typically characterised by morphological and functional modifications of right-sided valves.
Joana Simões-Pereira +3 more
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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSTICS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE [PDF]
Zdravniški Vestnik, 2002 Background. Carcinoid heart disease is a rare heart disease which affects endocard and heart valves on the right side of heart. It affects only patients with manifested carcinoid syndrome, which is thought to be the consequence of secretory active ...
Janez Ravnik +3 more
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A Case of Carcinoid Heart Disease and Echocardiographic Findings [PDF]
Graduate Medical Education Research Journal, 2020 Carcinoid heart disease occurs in approximately 50% of patients with carcinoid syndrome. Right heart involvement resulting in tricuspid regurgitation, tricuspid stenosis, pulmonic regurgitation and pulmonic stenosis is most common.
Brandon R. Alex +3 more
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Cardiologia HungaricaIntroduction: Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) is associated with neuroendocrine tumours and carcinoid syndrome, most commonly affecting the right heart valves, potentially associated with right heart failure which determines the poor survival.
Emese Papp +8 more
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Valvular Disorders in Carcinoid Heart Disease
Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2016 Carcinoid heart disease is a rare but important cause of intrinsic right heart valve disorders leading to right heart failure. Occasionally, left-sided heart valves may also be involved. The characteristic cardiac pathological findings of carcinoid heart
Shi-Min Yuan
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Adults with congenital heart disease: the patients' perspective. [PDF]
Over the last 50 years technical and other advances have resulted in more than 90% of children born with congenital heart disease (CHD) surviving and reaching adulthood.
Lyon, Joy E.
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