Each began on the face and neck, becoming widespread on trunk and limbs within 15 minutes as pruritic geographic areas of bright erythema. The flush was often accompanied by red watering eyes, palpitations and occasionally hyperventilation, but would resolve within 1 hour. She had also noted the...
The article presents a case study of a 72-year-old man who was taken to the hospital due to metastatic carcinoid syndrome. It notes that the patient had cyanosis, telangiectasia and flushing of the face and with congestive heart failure and weight loss. Carcinoid tumour and its originations ...
A carcinoid syndrome is typically diagnosed in elderly patients, median age at diagnosis was 60 years in two large series. We describe a patient with the carcinoid syndrome at the young age of 15 years.The 15-year-old patient's history and findings on physical examination, clinical chemistry,...
carcinoid heart diseasetreatment patternsTo quantify healthcare resource use (HRU) and costs in relation to carcinoid syndrome (CS) and carcinoid heart disease (CHD) in a real-world setting, and to provide perspective on treatment patterns.Patient data and HRU were collected retrospectively from ...
Examines the efficacy of 5-hydroxytryptamine M receptor antagonist on carcinoid syndrome. Mediation of 5-hydroxytryptamine on secretory diarrhea of carcinoid syndrome; Role of receptor on sweating; Effect of bile salt spillage on diarrhoea of carcinoid syndrome.Anderson...
The Carcinoid Syndrome and Angioedema.EBSCO_AspAnnals of Internal Medicine
malignant carcinoid syndromeneuroendocrineAn 80-year-old male patient presented with abdominal pain, paroxysmal diaphoresis, diarrhoea and vomiting. CT scan revealed a small bowel endocrine carcinoma (or ‘carcinoid’ tumour), but the absence of hepatic disease. The lesion was excised ‘en-bloc’. ...
Fibrosis and Carcinoid Syndrome: from causation to future therapy. Nature Rev Endocrinol 2009; 5:276-83.Druce M, Rockall A & Grossman AB 2009 Fibrosis and carcinoid syndrome: from causation to future therapy. Nature Reviews. Endocrinology 5 276-283. (doi:10.1038/nrendo.2009.51)...
SummaryThe follow up of a case of the carcinoid syndrome complicated by scleroderma is reported, in which progress of the disease may have been halted by treatment with a combinaton of cyproheeptadine, paracholrophenylalanone and prednisolone. Impairment of cyproheptadine, parachlorophenylalanine ...
Carney JA, Go VLW, Fairbanks VF, Moore SB, Alport EC, Nora FE: The syndrome of gastric carcinoid tumors and nonantral gastric atrophy. Ann Intern Med 99:761-766, 1983Carney JA, Go VLW, Fairbanks VF, Moore SB, Alport EC, Nora FE: The syndrome of gastric carcinoid tumors and nonantral...