Related Experiment Videos
[Tricuspid insufficiency disclosing carcinoid syndrome]
J Monségu1, J P Algayres, J M Ciribilli
1Clinique médicale, hôpital d'instruction des Armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France.
La Revue De Medecine Interne
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
The authors present a case of tricuspid regurgitation which reveals a carcinoid syndrome in an 68 year-old woman discovered in view of right heart failure. This carcinoid heart disease is early without symptoms of the primitive or the liver metastatic tumors. We see a good evolution with somatostatin's analogue. We review the diagnosis features in trans-thoracic and trans-oesophageal echocardiography, and the possibility of surgical treatment of these lesions.