Carcinoid Heart Disease: Starting From Heart Failure
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Carcinoid Heart Disease: Starting From Heart Failure
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 release of vasoactive substances. Carcinoid heart disease occurs in more than 50% of patients with carcinoid syndrome; in some cases, it represents ...
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The patient, C.P., is a 59-year-old woman who was diagnosed with metastatic carcinoid of the terminal ileum in May 2003. In June 2003, she underwent an extensive resection including hemicolectomy, cholecystectomy, distal pancreatectomy, and splenectomy with metastatic disease in her pancreas, mesentery, and liver. She had been treated with octreotide, everolimus, oxaliplatin, and multiple hepat...
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Carcinoid tumors are relatively rare neuroendocrine malignancies most commonly originating from enterochromaffin cells in the gastrointestinal tract. The incidence is 1 in 100 000 of the general population.1 They usually grow slowly over years, commonly causing no symptoms at all until they become large or have metastasized. Carcinoid tumors of midgut origin may secrete large amounts of vasoact...
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THE CARCINOID TUMOR is a slow growing malignant lesion capable of distant metastases. Frequently, patients afflicted with this tumor develop a pathognomonic fibrosis of valves and endocardium involving primarily the right side of the heart. Although only 50% of the patients with metastatic disease survive for 3 years, these patients usually succumb from intractable congestive heart failure.' Re...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2324-7096,2324-7096
DOI: 10.1177/2324709617713511