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Carcinoid Heart Disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2010
![Figure][1] [![Graphic][3] ][3][![Graphic][4] ][4][![Graphic][5] ][5] A 26-year-old man with a history of carcinoid and small-bowel resection presented with shortness of breath.
Hong, Susie N., Saric, Muhamed, Kronzon, Itzhak   +2 more
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Multimodality imaging in the diagnostic approach to a patient with carcinoid heart disease involving four heart valves

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, Mozhgan Parsaee, Niloufar Samiei, Mahshid Hesami, Feridoun Noohi, Saeid Hosseini, Golnaz Houshmand   +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

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, Alexandra Dădârlat-Pop, Raluca Tomoaia, Claudia Hagiu, Dan Axente, Valer Donca, Mihai Suceveanu   +6 more
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Carcinoid heart disease: the winking heart [PDF]

Heart Asia, 2013
A 70-year-old woman with a metastatic neuroendocrine tumour presented with heart failure. A 2D transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) showed thickened, retracted and fixed tricuspid valve (TV) leaflets with free-flowing tricuspid regurgitation (figure 1A, online supplementary videos 1 and 2), and thickened and retracted pulmonary valve (PV) cusps with ...
Ana, García Martín, Jose Luis, Moya Mur, Covadonga, Fernández Golfín, José Luis, Zamorano Gómez   +3 more
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Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease as Manifestations of Non-Metastatic Ovarian Neuroendocrine Tumour

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, Lai Mun Wang, Attila Kardos, Ashley Grossman   +3 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, Sudeep Krishna, Manjunath Shetty   +2 more
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A Rare Case of Carcinoid Constrictive Pericarditis

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
We describe a case of atypical carcinoid heart disease. A 62-year-old woman with well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor metastatic to the liver and lymph nodes presented with recurrent unilateral pleural effusions and lower extremity edema ...
Teresa S. Wang, MD, Emily K. Bergsland, MD, Ruth Zhang, MD, Kai Ihnken, MD, Kirsten Tolstrup, MD   +4 more
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Biochemical factors in the blood serum of neuroendocrine tumor patients with carcinoid syndrome

Успехи молекулярной онкологии, 2022
Introduction. Carcinoid syndrome is the most common functional syndrome in patients with neuroendocrine tumors. More than 40 biochemical factors are responsible for the manifestation of carcinoid syndrome, among which serotonin is the most important. The
N. V. Lyubimova, Yu. S. Timofeev, A. V. Lebedeva, A. V. Artamonova, I. S. Stilidi, N. E. Kushlinskii   +5 more
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Carcinoid Heart Disease

Structural Heart, 2020
Carcinoid heart disease is seen in 50% of patients with carcinoid syndrome and is the main cause of morbidity and mortality.
Amin Sabet, Mina Haghighiabyaneh, Chirag Rajyaguru, Ajit Raisinghani, Daniel Kupsky, Anthony N. DeMaria   +5 more
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Carcinoid heart disease revealed by cyanosis with both right and left valvular involvement: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2018
Background Carcinoid heart disease is a frequent complication of carcinoid syndrome. It is related to the release by the carcinoid tumor and/or its metastases of bioactive substances such as serotonin.
Khadija Khay, Salim Arous, Tarik Bentaoune, Abdenasser Drighil, Rachida Habbal   +4 more
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