Multimodality imaging in carcinoid heart disease
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Multimodality imaging in heart valve disease.
In patients with heart valve disease, echocardiography is the mainstay for diagnosis, assessment and serial surveillance. However, other modalities, notably cardiac MRI and CT, are used if echocardiographic imaging is suboptimal but can also give complementary information to improve assessment of the valve lesion and cardiac compensation to aid the timing of surgery and determine risk. This sta...
متن کاملMultimodality Imaging of Heart Valve Disease
Unidentified heart valve disease is associated with a significant morbidity and mortality. It has therefore become important to accurately identify, assess and monitor patients with this condition in order that appropriate and timely intervention can occur. Although echocardiography has emerged as the predominant imaging modality for this purpose, recent advances in cardiac magnetic resonance a...
متن کاملMultimodality Imaging in Congenital Heart Disease: an Update
The increasing number of survivors of congenital heart disease (CHD) has been paralleled by advancement of imaging modalities used for the ongoing assessment of these patients. There has been a large body of literature describing new approaches to non-invasive assessment of CHD. We will review new applications of well established as well as novel techniques for the management and understanding ...
متن کاملCarcinoid heart disease.
The patient, C.P., is a 59-year-old woman who was diagnosed with metastatic carcinoid of the terminal ileum in May 2003. In June 2003, she underwent an extensive resection including hemicolectomy, cholecystectomy, distal pancreatectomy, and splenectomy with metastatic disease in her pancreas, mesentery, and liver. She had been treated with octreotide, everolimus, oxaliplatin, and multiple hepat...
متن کاملCarcinoid heart disease.
Carcinoid tumors are relatively rare neuroendocrine malignancies most commonly originating from enterochromaffin cells in the gastrointestinal tract. The incidence is 1 in 100 000 of the general population.1 They usually grow slowly over years, commonly causing no symptoms at all until they become large or have metastasized. Carcinoid tumors of midgut origin may secrete large amounts of vasoact...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Open Heart
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2053-3624
DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2019-001060