Pulmonary Artery Pressure Ventricularization in a Patient With Carcinoid Heart Disease

Marius Reto Bigler, MD; Lukas Hunziker, MD; Stefano Fausto de Marchi, MD; Thomas Pilgrim, MD; Stephan Windecker, MD; Christian Seiler, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Jul 2020)

Pulmonary Artery Pressure Ventricularization in a Patient With Carcinoid Heart Disease

Marius Reto Bigler, MD,
Lukas Hunziker, MD,
Stefano Fausto de Marchi, MD,
Thomas Pilgrim, MD,
Stephan Windecker, MD,
Christian Seiler, MD

Affiliations

Marius Reto Bigler, MD: Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Lukas Hunziker, MD: Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Stefano Fausto de Marchi, MD: Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Thomas Pilgrim, MD: Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Stephan Windecker, MD: Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Christian Seiler, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr. Christian Seiler, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Freiburgstrasse 8, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland.; Department of Cardiology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 8
pp. 1200 – 1204

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Ventricularization of the pulmonary artery pressure curve is shown, characterized by a steep diastolic pressure fall with mid-diastolic pressure equalization with the right ventricle, which was caused by severe pulmonary valvular regurgitation in a patient with carcinoid heart syndrome. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

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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