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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Echocardiographic imaging of tricuspid and pulmonary valve abnormalities in primary ovarian carcinoid tumor [PDF]
Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 2010 Carcinoid is a rare malignancy originating from enterochromaffin cells and is clinically characterized by flushing, diarrhea and bronchospasm, due to secretion of vasoactive substances.
Aggeli Constantina +6 more
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Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Classic One, But Not Always Remembered. [PDF]
CureusA 24-year-old female presented a dermatosis characterized by confluent erythematous spots on her face and neck and was diagnosed with presumed systemic lupus erythematosus.
Ramírez-Rangel P +4 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 Heart Disease: Early Outcomes after Surgical Valve Replacement in Nine Patients [PDF]
, 2018 Aim: To describe the early outcomes of carcinoid patients undergoing surgical heart valve replacement. Methods: In a retrospective study, records of patients with symptomatic carcinoid heart disease referred for valve surgery between 2012 and 2016 ...
Syed Saleem Mujtaba, Stephen Clark
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Ovarian Tumor-Associated Carcinoid Heart Disease Presenting as Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation [PDF]
, 2011 Carcinoid heart disease is characterized by heart valve dysfunction as well as carcinoid symptomatology. We report a case of carcinoid heart disease associated with a primary ovarian tumor.
Hong-Won Shin +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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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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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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