MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE

Orkun Baloğlu; Servet Tatlı

doi:10.29333/ejgm/82577

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Orkun Baloğlu ¹, Servet Tatlı ² ^*

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¹ Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey² Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology, Boston, USA^* Corresponding Author

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

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Publication date: 15 Jan 2008

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