Monségu J, Algayres J P, Ciribilli J M, Bussière J L, Duriez P, Gaillard J F, Daly J P
Clinique médicale, hôpital d'instruction des Armées du Val-de-Grâce, Paris, France.
Rev Med Interne. 1994;15(9):593-6. doi: 10.1016/s0248-8663(05)82505-6.
The authors present a case of tricuspid regurgitation which reveals a carcinoid syndrome in an 68 year-old woman discovered in view of right heart failure. This carcinoid heart disease is early without symptoms of the primitive or the liver metastatic tumors. We see a good evolution with somatostatin's analogue. We review the diagnosis features in trans-thoracic and trans-oesophageal echocardiography, and the possibility of surgical treatment of these lesions.