Carcinoid heart disease with severe hypoxia due to interatrial shunt through patent foramen ovale.
Carcinoid heart disease occurs in approximately half of patients who have carcinoid syndrome and is the leading cause of death among these patients. It is typically manifest as right-sided valvular lesions, usually tricuspid insufficiency and pulmonary valve stenosis. This case report describes the unusual presentation of a patient with carcinoid heart disease and a large right-to-left shunt through a patent foramen ovale.
Boglioli
L R
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Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA.
Gardiner
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J
Gerstenblith
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Taff
M L
ML
Cameron
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D000328:Adult; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications*; D002275:Carcinoid Heart Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D014262:Tricuspid Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications*; D014463:Ultrasonography