[Demonstration by Doppler echocardiography of multiple valvular involvement in carcinoid cardiopathy]

Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss. 1989 Jan;82(1):109-14.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report a case of carcinoid heart disease which was remarkable on three scores: --the value of echocardiography which enabled us to diagnose the disease; --the usefulness of cardiac doppler examination which provided non-invasive haemodynamic evaluation of lesions of the four valves; --the presence of moderate involvement of the right heart, which is classical from the point of view of anatomopathology but is often missed clinically and was ascertained in that case by doppler-echocardiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoid Heart Disease / complications
  • Carcinoid Heart Disease / diagnosis*
  • Echocardiography, Doppler*
  • Heart Failure / etiology
  • Heart Valve Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Heart Valve Diseases / etiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Malignant Carcinoid Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Middle Aged