Carcinoid heart disease: a Doppler echocardiographic report.
This paper describes the two-dimensional echocardiographic and pulsed Doppler findings in a 25-year-old man with tricuspid insufficiency due to carcinoid heart involvement. A hypothesis explaining the time sequence of the carcinoid valve involvement is suggested.
D000328:Adult; D002037:Bundle-Branch Block / Q000209:etiology; D002275:Carcinoid Heart Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000209:etiology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D008297:Male; D008303:Malignant Carcinoid Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology