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Complex Tricuspid and Pulmonic Carcinoid Heart Disease With Timely Surgical Repair [PDF]

Texas Heart Institute Journal
A 63-year-old man with a history of hypertension, prediabetes, and sleep apnea presented with pedal edema, weight loss, and flushing. Laboratory work revealed elevated B-type natriuretic peptide and normocytic anemia.
John Hollowed, MD, Hawkin Woo, MD, Solomon Hamburg, MD, PhD, Abbas Ardehali, MD   +3 more
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A Royal Flush: Carcinoid Heart Disease Complicated by Severe Tricuspid and Pulmonic Valve Regurgitation [PDF]

Cureus
Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) is a severe complication of metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), leading to fibrotic degeneration of right-sided heart valves. A 38-year-old male presented with progressive dyspnea, fatigue, abdominal bloating, diarrhea,
S. Zaidi, N. Appareddy, W. Garcia, Raj Vashistha, Jenny K Lee, Faisal Mahfooz, Derar Albashaireh   +6 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: A Rare Complication of Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumor [PDF]

Cureus
Carcinoid heart disease (CHD), also known as Hedinger syndrome, is a rare but significant cardiac complication associated with metastatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
John P Martinez Ponce, Oskar Ubysz, Thomas Vanhecke   +2 more
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A Case of Carcinoid Heart Disease and Echocardiographic Findings [PDF]

, 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 Alex, Jeffrey Songster, H. Houston Merritt, Rebecca Aron   +3 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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Carcinoid heart disease – still a challenging diagnosis?

Romanian Journal of Cardiology
Neuroendocrine 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, Anghel Larisa, Sascău Radu Andy, Stătescu Cristian   +3 more
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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
Milagros Pereyra, J. M. Farina, C. Chao, C. Ayoub, R. Arsanjani   +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
Sola Mansour, Matthew Anaka, Rany Al‐Agha   +2 more
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Carcinoid heart disease [PDF]

Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2007
In patients with carcinoid heart disease, a multidisciplinary approach to patient care is required because treatment of the systemic disease and management of cardiac involvement must be considered at the same time. Somatostatin analogue use is a therapeutic cornerstone, effective in symptomatic control of the endocrine syndrome.
Heidi M. Connolly, Patricia A. Pellikka, Alain M. Bernheim   +2 more
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