Successful balloon dilatation of the pulmonary valve in carcinoid heart disease
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Published on: May 13, 2019
A D Hargreaves1, S D Pringle, N A Boon
1Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK.
International Journal of Cardiology
|June 15, 1994
Abstract:
Percutaneous balloon dilatation of the pulmonary valve resulted in long lasting benefit in a 40-year-old patient with carcinoid heart disease. Concomitant aggressive therapy for her metastatic carcinoid tumour may explain why the clinical outcome was better than previous reports.

