Multimodality imaging in the diagnostic approach to a patient with carcinoid heart disease involving four heart valves [PDF]
Clinical Case Reports, 2022 Carcinoid heart disease is a rare condition that occurs in less than half of patients with carcinoid syndrome. The disease mainly affects right‐sided heart valves; however, in 5%–10%, it can also involve left‐sided valves.
Shirin Habibi Khorasani +6 more
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The Role of Echocardiography in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Involvement in a Rare Systemic Condition: The Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2022 Carcinoid heart disease is a rare presentation of the carcinoid syndrome, which is caused by excessive tumoral hormone production and the abundant release of vasoactive substances with systemic expressions.
Adela Șerban +6 more
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Simultaneous surgical treatment of primary ovarian carcinoid and carcinoid heart disease [PDF]
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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Diagnostic Dilemma of a Neuroendocrine Tumour Complicated by Simultaneous Retroperitoneal Fibrosis and Carcinoid Heart Disease in a Perimenopausal Woman. [PDF]
CureusCarcinoid tumours are rare, slow-growing neuroendocrine neoplasms that often remain asymptomatic until metastatic spread or the development of carcinoid syndrome.
Rummun MA +7 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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Percutaneous transcatheter pulmonary and tricuspid valve replacements in a patient with carcinoid heart disease. [PDF]
Eur Heart J Case Rep, 2023 Pereyra M +4 more
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Carcinoid heart disease – still a challenging diagnosis?
Romanian Journal of CardiologyNeuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are rare neoplasms that can occur anywhere in the body. Mostly, they are located in the gastrointestinal tract or lungs. A third of subjects with NETs present carcinoid syndrome (CS) features.
Benchea Laura Cătălina +3 more
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A Case of Primary Insular Ovarian Carcinoid Tumor with Hyperandrogenism and Carcinoid Heart Disease. [PDF]
Am J Case Rep, 2022 Mansour S, Anaka MR, Al-Agha R.
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Balancing carcinoid crisis and right ventricular dysfunction during tricuspid and pulmonic valve replacement for carcinoid heart disease: A case report. [PDF]
Int J Surg Case Rep, 2023 Pagryzinski AR +5 more
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