MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE

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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CARCINOID HEART DISEASE

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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

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• MRI, carcinoid tumor, carcinoid heart disease

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