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.
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Research Institute, Healthcare Sciences, Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, UK. Raashda.Sulaiman@rwh-tr.nhs.uk
Raashda
R
Sulaiman
Mark
M
Panting
Gurpal
G
Bhogal
Ian
I
Perry
Clare
C
Ford
Rousseau
R
Gama
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*