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Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease as Manifestations of Non-Metastatic Ovarian Neuroendocrine Tumour

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Medica Portuguesa, May 2017
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Title
Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease as Manifestations of Non-Metastatic Ovarian Neuroendocrine Tumour
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Acta Medica Portuguesa, May 2017
DOI 10.20344/amp.7713
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Authors

Joana Simões-Pereira, Lai Mun Wang, Attila Kardos, Ashley Grossman

Abstract

The carcinoid syndrome is rare but it is associated with carcinoid heart disease in more than a half of the cases. Carcinoid heart disease is typically characterised by morphological and functional modifications of right-sided valves. Its aetiology is probable multifactorial but serotonin appears to play a key role in the development of this valvular disease. Unlike gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours, ovarian neuroendocrine tumours can present with carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease in the absence of liver metastases; such ovarian neuroendocrine tumours are a unique clinical entity. The additional burden of cardiac impairment in these patients represents a significant reduction in survival. Early recognition and surgical valve replacement before advanced heart failure is established may improve the clinical outcome. We report the case of a woman with an ovarian neuroendocrine tumour and highly symptomatic carcinoid heart disease who was submitted to tumour resection followed by valvuloplasty. She demonstrated an outstanding clinical improvement and has remained free of tumour and symptomatology.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 14 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 21%
Student > Bachelor 3 21%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Student > Postgraduate 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 57%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 7%
Unknown 5 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2017.
All research outputs
#17,289,387
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Acta Medica Portuguesa
#143
of 451 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#210,735
of 330,283 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Acta Medica Portuguesa
#4
of 11 outputs
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