A Rare Case of Carcinoid Constrictive Pericarditis

Teresa S. Wang, MD; Emily K. Bergsland, MD; Ruth Zhang, MD; Kai Ihnken, MD; Kirsten Tolstrup, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Jan 2020)

A Rare Case of Carcinoid Constrictive Pericarditis

Teresa S. Wang, MD,
Emily K. Bergsland, MD,
Ruth Zhang, MD,
Kai Ihnken, MD,
Kirsten Tolstrup, MD

Affiliations

Teresa S. Wang, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Address for correspondence: Dr. Teresa S. Wang, Division of Cardiology, University of California-San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M1182, San Francisco, California 94143-0124.
Emily K. Bergsland, MD: Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Ruth Zhang, MD: Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Kai Ihnken, MD: Department of Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Kirsten Tolstrup, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

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We describe a case of atypical carcinoid heart disease. A 62-year-old woman with well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor metastatic to the liver and lymph nodes presented with recurrent unilateral pleural effusions and lower extremity edema. Multimodality imaging and workup resulted in the diagnosis of carcinoid-related constrictive pericarditis, a rare form of carcinoid heart disease. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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