Carcinoid heart disease (CHD) is a rare cardiac manifestation occurring in patients with advanced neuroendocrine tumours and the carcinoid syndrome, usually involving the right-sided heart valves and eventually leading to right heart failure. The pathophysiology of CHD is still obscure and believed to ...
Pathophysiology , classification , and complications of common asymptomatic 1 thrombocytosis in newborn infants 2 3 Running title : Thrombocytosis in newbo... Carcinoid syndrome (CS) develops in patients with hormone-producing neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) when hormones reach a significant level in th...
Influence of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 on gastric endocrine cells in patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. Whatever the underlying mechanism for carcinoidosis, the risk of developing fundic enterochromaffin like cell tumours in Zollinger-Ellison syndrome patients who ... T Lehy,G Cadio...
Carcinoid tumors can be "nonfunctioning" presenting as a tumor mass or "functioning" i.e. producing several biopeptides causing carcinoid syndrome. The sign and symptoms of a "nonfunctioning" tumor depend on the tumor location and size as well as on the presence of metastases. Therefore, ...
Urinary 24-hour histamine may help in the diagnosis of recurrent anaphylaxis Urinary 24-hour 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid levels: If carcinoid syndrome is a consideration Skin testing, in vitro immunoglobulin E (IgE) tests, or both may be used to determine the stimulus causing the anaphylactic react...
About half of all cancer patients show a syndrome of cachexia, characterized by anorexia and loss of adipose tissue and skeletal muscle mass. Cachexia can
Chapter 2 Asthma: Pathophysiology and Diagnosis Susie Yim Yeh and Richard Schwartzstein Introduction Although asthma is a common disorder affecting approximately 7.8% of the United States population (Schiller et al. 2006) or 23 million Americans, the patho- genesis of this disease remains to be ...
Carcinoid Heart Disease: From Pathophysiology to Treatment -`Something in the Way It Moves'. Neu- roendocrinology 2015; Apr 9. [Epub ahead of print].Grozinsky-Glasberg Sm Grossman AB, Gross DJ. Carcinoid heart disease: from pathophysiology to treatment - "something in the way it moves". ...
Valvular heart disease (VHD) is common, affecting >14% of individuals aged >75, and is associated with morbidity, including heart failure and arrhythmia, a... EJ Wiens,K Kawa,M Kass,... - 《Canadian Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology》 被引量: 0发表: 2024年 Carcinoid syndrome and valv...
Type 2 multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN 2) is a rare familial cancer syndrome caused by mutations in the RET proto-oncogene. Sipple first described an association between thyroid cancer and pheochromocytoma (benign tumor of the adrenal medulla) in 1961.