To cite: Miles LF, Leong T, McCall P, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014207732 DESCRIPTION A 41-year-old man presented to an anaesthetic preassessment clinic with a metastatic neuroendocrine tumour and clinical features of carcinoid syndrome for consideration of hepatic resection. He gave a history of worsening exertional dyspnoea and peri...

Endobronchial carcinoid tumors are the most common intrabronchial tumors in children and adolescents. Common signs and symptoms include persistent cough and wheezing not responsive to bronchodilators, hemoptysis, and recurrent fever. Diagnosis is frequently made by imaging and direct visualization with flexible bronchoscopy; surgery remains the gold standard treatment, and lung-sparing resectio...

BACKGROUND The long-term prognosis of patients who develop carcinoid heart disease and the effect of cardiac surgery on outcome are not well established. METHODS AND RESULTS In this retrospective study, we identified 200 patients with carcinoid syndrome referred for echocardiography in whom the diagnosis of carcinoid heart disease was confirmed. Patients were divided into 3 groups of similar ...

Carcinoid tumors are rare, slow-growing neuroendocrine neoplasms that often are indolent and may not become clinically apparent until there has been metastatic spread or evidence of carcinoid syndrome. Recent evidence has revealed that the overall incidence of carcinoid tumors has been steadily increasing, and although the disease was thought to be relatively benign, it is now considered one of...

Carcinoids are rare neuroendocrine tumours that occur primarily in the gastrointestinal tract. Carcinoid heart disease is characterized by fibrous plaque deposition on the endocardial surface of the cardiac valves and chambers. It affects the right heart valves in 85% of cases and the left heart valves in 15%. We present an unusual case of a patient with metastatic carcinoid heart disease in wh...

OBJECTIVE To develop a collaborative approach for the treatment of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours and carcinoid syndrome. PARTICIPANTS Leaders in the medical, endocrine, radiologic and surgical treatment of carcinoid disease were selected to present papers at the Carcinoid Syndrome Symposium on Treatment Modalities for Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumours and participate in the workshop tha...

The carcinoid syndrome describes the signs and symptoms associated with unregulated vasoactive hormone production by neuroendocrine tumors. Carcinoid tumors can be found anywhere throughout the body, but these will not result in carcinoid syndrome unless they form in the liver as a primary tumor or as a metastasis. Symptoms of carcinoid syndrome include flushing, diarrhea, and wheezing. VIPomas...

A case is described of a 54 year old woman who had acute pericarditis with large exudative eVusion accompanied by severe right and left ventricular failure. The patient was finally diagnosed with carcinoid heart disease from an ovarian carcinoid teratoma. She was treated with octreotide—a somatostatin analogue— followed by radical surgical resection of the neoplasm. At one year follow up only m...

The first report of an association between a carcinoid tumor and a specific syndrome was reported by Biorck and associates in 1952. 6 Since that time, literature on the carcinoid syndrome has appeared more frequently. In 1976, Mason and Steane published two review articles on the subject which have served as reference guides for anesthesia personnel.6' 7 Fewer than 50 cases of the carcinoid syn...