MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE
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Orkun Baloğlu 1, Servet Tatlı 2 *
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1 Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
2 Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, Boston, USA
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Abstract

Carcinoid heart disease is a rare complication of metastatic carcinoid. We present a 46-year-old woman who had metastatic carcinoid and progressive right heart failure. Cardiac MR imaging was helpful in the detection of the extent of the cardiac disease.

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https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/82577

EUR J GEN MED, 2008 - Volume 5 Issue 1, pp. 54-56

Publication date: 15 Jan 2008

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