Shortness of breath: flushing out the diagnosis.
We report a 63-year-old man who presented with breathlessness and weight loss and was diagnosed on echocardiography to have carcinoid heart disease. It was later transpired that he underwent surgical removal of an ileal carcinoid tumour 19 years previously.
Sulaiman
Raashda
R
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Research Institute, Healthcare Sciences, Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK. Raashda.Sulaiman@rwh-tr.nhs.uk
Panting
Mark
M
Bhogal
Gurpal
G
Perry
Ian
I
Ford
Clare
C
Gama
Rousseau
R
D002275:Carcinoid Heart Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004452:Echocardiography; D006801:Humans; D007078:Ileal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015619:Respiratory System Abnormalities / Q000503:physiopathology*