Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease as Manifestations of Non-Metastatic Ovarian Neuroendocrine Tumour The carcinoid syndrome is rare but it is associated with carcinoid heart disease in more than a half of the cases. Carcinoid heart disease is typically ... Joana,Simões-Pereira,Lai,.....
Less frequently, drugs or chemicals may produce long-term cardiac alterations, which may show clinical and morphological manifestations of a chronic cardiomyopathy. The morphologic reactions of the heart to toxic injury include (1) cardiac hypertrophy, (2) cardiomyopathies, (3) cardiac cellular ...
This review focuses on the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, pathology, and treatment of patients with these endocrine diseases who present with a variety of cardiovascular manifestations. Neuroendocrine tumors presenting with the carcinoid syndrome and their cardiovascular manifestations are also discussed...
Previously reported cardiac manifestations of carcinoid disease include right-sided valvular dysfunction and vasomotor disturbances. This report describes a 62-year-old white man who had electrocardiographlcally documented widespread ele... EJ Topol,NJ Fortuin - 《American Journal of Medicine》 被引量:...