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Carcinoid Crisis–Induced Acute Systolic Heart Failure

JACC: Case Reports, 2020
Carcinoid crisis is a life-threatening manifestation of carcinoid syndrome characterized by profound autonomic instability in the setting of catecholamine release from stress, tumor manipulation, or anesthesia.
Manoj V. Maddali, MD, Catherine Chiu, MD, Emily R. Cedarbaum, MD, Vidhushei Yogeswaran, MD, Mohamed Seedahmed, MD, Wendy Smith, MD, Emily Bergsland, MD, Nicholas Fidelman, MD, Jamie L.W. Kennedy, MD   +8 more
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Bronchial Carcinoid Tumour as a Rare Cause of Cushing’s Syndrome in Children: A Case Report and Review of Literature

JCRPE, 2020
Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is rare in childhood and adolescence. The most common paediatric cause of CS is exogenous administration of glucocorticoids; either topical, inhaled or oral corticosteroids.
Rahul Saxena, Manish Pathak, Ravindra Shukla, Arvind Sinha, Poonam Elhence, Jyotsna N. Bharti, Pushpinder Khera   +6 more
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Metastatic Recurrence of Typical Pulmonary Carcinoid Accompanied by Carcinoid Syndrome, Successfully Treated with Octreotide LAR

Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2017
We present a case of metastatic recurrence of carcinoid tumor accompanied by carcinoid syndrome in a 68-year-old Japanese man, 12 years after resection of typical pulmonary carcinoid.
Asako Yanagisawa, Satoshi Hirano, Shinichiro Shimizu, Takuma Hiroishi, Kohei Shikano, Noriko Hayama, Tetsuo Fujita, Hiroyuki Amano, Makoto Nakamura, Sukeyuki Nakamura, Hiroshi Tabeta   +10 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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Hedinger Syndrome with Intraoperative Carcinoid Crisis — Understanding the Pathophysiology for a Successful Management

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2021
Carcinoid tumors can be a cause for right heart valve disease, also known as Hedinger syndrome or carcinoid heart disease. Proper understanding of the pathophysiology is of the uttermost importance for adequate treatment of these patients, especially ...
Albert Franz Guerrero-Becerra, Juan Sebastián Frías-Ordoñez, Sergio A Higuera, Laura Patricia Gutiérrez-Soriano, Juan Camilo Giraldo   +4 more
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Ablation of typical atrial flutter as therapeutic component in carcinoid heart disease: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2022
Background Carcinoid heart disease is the cardiac manifestation of carcinoid syndrome. There is limited research on rhythm management in patients with carcinoid heart disease.
Susann Groschke, Rolf Weinert, Björn Becker, Gert Richardt, Ralph Tölg, Leon Iden, Martin Borlich   +6 more
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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, Serena Favretto MD, Francesco Pelizzo MD, Lucio Mos MD, Franco Pertoldi MD, Olga Vriz MD   +5 more
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Ileal Ischaemic Necrosis due to Metastatic Mesenteric Carcinoid [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2019
Carcinoid tumours are the rare tumours arising from neuroendocrine cells. These tumours are relatively slow growing and may be clinically apparent only after a metastatic spread or evidence of Carcinoid syndrome. Rarely, these tumours may cause ischaemic
B R yelikar, K mamatha, Namrata Balachandra Mestri, Deepthi Chandrika Chintalapudi, Anil Reddy Kondurudi   +4 more
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Carcinoid heart disease: A case discussion with reappraisalcarcinoid heart disease: A case discussion with reappraisal

Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2017
Carcinoid tumors are malignant neuroendocrine tumors arising from Kulchitsky cell. The most common site of primary carcinoid tumors is gastrointestinal tract (64%) followed by respiratory tract (28%).
Rohit Tandon, Ravinder Pal Singh
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External beam irradiation of myocardial carcinoid metastases: a case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2007
The heart is an exceedingly rare site of metastatic involvement in carcinoid tumors. Only nineteen cases have been described in the literature over the past 30 years.
Strosberg Jonathan, Hoffe Sarah, Hazelton Todd, Kvols Larry   +3 more
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