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A computer picture of the heart created by bouncing high-energy sound waves (ultrasound) off internal tissues or organs of the chest. Echocardiograms show the size, shape, and position of the heart. They also show the parts inside the heart, such as the valves, and the motion of the heart while it is beating. An echocardiogram may be used to help diagnose heart problems, such as abnormal heart valves and heart rhythms, damage to the heart muscle from a heart attack, and heart murmurs. Echocardiograms can also show an infection on or around the heart valves, blood clots or tumors inside the heart, and fluid build-up in the sac around the heart.

05 May 2024

By Ronny Allan

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Neuroendocrine Cancer – don’t break my heart!

Awareness, Living with Neuroendocrine Cancer, Survivorship, TreatmentCarcinoid heart disease, Carcinoid syndrome, ECG, Echocardiogram, Heart disease, Hedinger syndrome, Hormones, Neuroendocrine, Neuroendocrine cancer, NT-proBNP, Patent foramen ovale (PFO), Quality of LIfe (QoL), Serotonin, SI NET, Small intestine NET (SI NET), Somatostatin analogues, Surgery

Neuroendocrine Cancer has certain unique features whereby tumours can produce one or more symptoms which are known collectively as a syndrome. Some doctors may refer to this as a functional tumour. Neuroendocrine Tumours secreting excess amounts of serotonin sufficiently to develop a syndrome currently called Carcinoid Syndrome, which if not diagnosed and treated early enough, or the levels of serotonin ae not controlled following diagnosis, can lead to an additional complication known as Hedinger Syndrome (also known as Carcinoid Heart Disease (CHD)). However, late diagnoses can present with CHD already in place and in some cases, may have led to…