Sajjad Ahmed Khan, Dikshya Devkota, Rahul Kumar Chaudhary, Anish Luitel, Surya Bahadur Parajuli, Madhab Bista, Asmita Rayamajhi
Carcinoid tumors (CT) are among the least studied tumors. It is a relatively rare and slow-growing tumor with good survival in its primary form. However, metastatic carcinoid tumor comes up with many different complications contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Metastatic form of the disease has a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations and multisystem involvement including cardiovascular manifestations, neurological manifestations, and psychiatric manifestations and so on. In this review, we are centered towards the cardiovascular manifestations of the disease, which, by far, is one of the commonest causes of death in these patients...
November 24, 2023: Medicine (Baltimore)