He subsequently developed dyspnea on exertion. Diagnosis. Carcinoid tumor of midgut origin with large segment 3 liver metastasis. Carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease. Management.

The development of cardiac fibrosis is thought to relate to vasoactive substances that are secreted by carcinoid metastases in the liver, which reach the right side of the heart. In the absence of ...

Eighteen patients with metastatic carcinoid were treated by hepatic artery embolization with Gelfoam or polyvinyl alcohol foam for control of the carcinoid syndrome. Seventeen showed subjective or ...

It is also called hepatic artery embolisation. You might have it as a treatment for a neuroendocrine ... You also have a drug called octreotide as a drip into a vein for 8 to 12 hours before the start ...

Serotonin is easily metabolized by the liver and carcinoid tumors frequently originate in the GI tract. This results in the toxic serotonin getting metabolized before reaching the right heart not ...

Metastases are the most common malignant hepatic tumor. They may appear as ... hypervascular metastases are neuroendocrine including carcinoid and islet cell tumor. Other tumors include renal ...