Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Review
Thiago Andrade Macedo, Roberto Nery Dantas Júnior, Ismar Aguiar Marques Filho, Pedro Gabriel Melo de Barros e Silva, Liliane Gomes da Rocha, Bernardo Baptista da Cunha Lopes & Marcio Campos Sampaio · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2016
Carcinoid tumors are rare malignancies able to spread and produce bioactive humoral products, mainly serotonin, which is responsible for the Carcinoid Syndrome (CS); its features are: flushing, diarrhea, bronchospasm and valvular heart disease. The Carcinoid Heart Disease (CHD) i...
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10.9734/BJMMR/2016/25952