Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Rare Cause of Right Ventricular Dysfunction Evaluation by Transthoracic 2D, Doppler and 3-D Echocardiography

Carcinoid heart disease is a rare cause of heart failure with or without right valvular heart impairments. In this study, we showed a case of carcinoid tumour with hepatic metastases inducing carcinoid heart disease. Neuroendocrine heart involvement happens for severe tricuspid valve insufficiency a...

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Autores principales: Cacciapuoti, Fulvio, Agrusta, Marco, Chiorazzo, Gisberta, Midolla, Arcangelo, Agrusta, Federica, Cacciapuoti, Federico
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Echocardiography 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860726
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.2.99

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860726
http://dx.doi.org/10.4250/jcu.2011.19.2.99

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