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Multimodality imaging in carcinoid heart disease
Open Heart, 2019 Neuroendocrine neoplasms arise from the gastrointestinal tract and can lead to carcinoid syndrome. Carcinoid heart disease affects more than half of these patients and is the initial presentation of carcinoid syndrome in up to 20 % of patients. Carcinoid
Ali M Agha +10 more
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Intestinal Carcinoid Tumours in a Father and Daughter
Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2001 Familial cases of carcinoid tumours that are not associated with any known syndrome or disease are extremely rare. All cases reported in the world literature have involved carcinoid tumours of the gastrointestinal tract. Two cases of carcinoid tumours of
Tuya Pal +4 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 +2 more
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Telotristat ethyl in carcinoid syndrome: safety and efficacy in the TELECAST phase 3 trial
Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2018 Telotristat ethyl, a tryptophan hydroxylase inhibitor, was efficacious and well tolerated in the phase 3 TELESTAR study in patients with carcinoid syndrome (CS) experiencing ≥4 bowel movements per day (BMs/day) while on somatostatin analogs (SSAs ...
M. Pavel +17 more
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Management of bronchial carcinoid: An anaesthetic challenge
Indian Journal of Anaesthesia, 2014 Carcinoid tumours pose a great challenge to anaesthesiologist, especially if carcinoid syndrome is present. We report peri-operative management of a patient with carcinoid syndrome who underwent upper lobectomy.
Prasoon Gupta +3 more
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Management of carcinoid syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2019 Carcinoid syndrome (CS) is a debilitating disease caused by functional neuroendocrine tumors. Several treatment options are available to alleviate the hormonal symptoms, but their relative efficacy is unknown.
J. Hofland +3 more
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Rare Presentation of a Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasm Presenting with Atrial Flutter
European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2021 Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PanNENs) rarely secrete serotonin, which is the main cause of carcinoid syndrome. One of its unusual manifestations is carcinoid heart disease or Hedinger’s syndrome which is seldom accompanied by cardiac arrhythmias.
Paraskevi C Fragkou +5 more
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A Case of Multicentric Carcinoid in a Patient with Psoriatic Spondyloarthropathy
Case Reports in Rheumatology, 2015 We describe the first case of a patient presenting with multicentric carcinoid occurring in the lung and subsequently in the rectum, with chronic psoriatic arthritis.
Nabil George +3 more
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Improving Small Lesion Segmentation in CT Scans using Intensity Distribution Supervision: Application to Small Bowel Carcinoid Tumor [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Finding small lesions is very challenging due to lack of noticeable features, severe class imbalance, as well as the size itself. One approach to improve small lesion segmentation is to reduce the region of interest and inspect it at a higher sensitivity rather than performing it for the entire region.
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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 +4 more
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