Carcinoid heart disease in an elderly female patient: the value of transthoracic echocardiography.
Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Pavlos
P
Stougiannos
Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
George
G
Michas
Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Constantinos
C
Evdoridis
MICROMEDICA LABS, Athens, Greece.
Petroula
P
Arapantoni-Dadioti
Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Panagiotis
P
Tolios
Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Ioannis
I
Kaplanis
Department of Cardiology, "Elpis" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: atrikas@otenet.gr.
Athanasios
A
Trikas
D000359:Aftercare; D000368:Aged; D001201:Ascites / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D002275:Carcinoid Heart Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D018358:Neuroendocrine Tumors / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D019152:Paracentesis / Q000379:methods; D013004:Somatostatin / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000378:metabolism; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D013004:Somatostatin; C081788:pentetreotide
carcinoid heart disease; carcinoid syndrome; octreoscan; transthoracic echocardiography