MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE

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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE

Abstract

Hacettepe University, School of Medicine1, Ankara, Turkey Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiology2, Boston, USA 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

Keywords

• MRI, carcinoid tumor, carcinoid heart disease

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