Medical therapy for carcinoid heart disease includes digitalis and diuretics for congestive heart failure symptoms; the effects of carcinoid syndrome can be treated with the use of somatostatin analogues. Conventional chemotherapy has been of little beneficial value, with response rates of only 10% to ...
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Carcinoid Heart Disease: From Pathophysiology to Treatment--'Something in the Way It Moves'. Gross, `Carcinoid Heart Disease: From Pathophysiology to Treatment- 'Something in the Way It Moves', Neuroendocrinology, vol. 101, no 4, pp.263-273, ... Simona,Grozinsky-Glasberg,Ashley,... - 《...
Carcinoid heart disease is a rare form of valvular heart disease. The management of these patients is complex, as the systemic malignant disease and the cardiac involvement have to be considered at the same time. Progress in the treatment of patients with carcinoid disease has resulted in improved...
Because the venous drainage of the ovary bypasses the portal circulation, carcinoid heart disease in patients with primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may develop in the absence of liver metastasis. We describe 4 patients who presented with symptomatic carcinoid heart disease in association with primary ova...
We herein report the clinical course and gratifying responses obtained in functioning metastatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET) with carcinoid heart disease (CaHD; uncontrolled by long acting octreotide) treated with 177 Lu-DOTATATE, that enabled taking the patient for corrective valvular surgery, in additio...
Grozinsky-Glasberg S, Grossman AB, Gross DJ.Carcinoid heart disease: from pathophysiology to treatment - ‘something in the way it moves’.Neuroendocrinology. 2015;101(4):263-273. doi:10.1159/000381930 American Cancer Society.Signs and symptoms of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors. ...
Medical records, operative reports, and surgical specimens were reviewed from all patients with carcinoid heart disease who underwent cardiac valvular surgery at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn, between 1980 and 2000. The study group included 75 patients (45 men, 30 women) who ranged in age from ...
Related to Carcinoid heart disease:carcinoid syndrome car·ci·noid (kär′sə-noid′) n. A small, slow-growing, benign or malignant tumor, found usually in the gastrointestinal tract, that is composed of islands of rounded cells and secretes serotonin. ...
Carcinoid heart disease. Clinical and echocardiographic spectrum in 74 patients. Treatment of the malignant carcinoid syndrome. Evaluation of a long-acting somatostatin analogue Modlin IM, Sandor A. An analysis of 8305 cases of carcinoid tumors. Cancer 79: 813-29 ...