Carcinoid heart – Case report
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[Carcinoid heart - case report].
We describe the case of a 76-year-old woman, diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor of the cecum in 2004, with liver metastases and carcinoid syndrome since September 2010. The patient had been treated intermittently with chemotherapy cycles, and remained symptomatic, with worsening secondary lesions. In June 2011 she began to present signs and symptoms of right heart failure and was hospitalize...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia (English Edition)
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2174-2049
DOI: 10.1016/j.repce.2012.07.011