A Rare Case of Carcinoid Constrictive Pericarditis

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

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.11.037

A Rare Case of Carcinoid Constrictive Pericarditis

JACC Case Rep. 2020 Jan 15;2(1):1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.11.037. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Teresa S Wang¹, Emily K Bergsland², Ruth Zhang³, Kai Ihnken⁴, Kirsten Tolstrup¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
² Department of Medicine, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Pathology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁴ Department of Surgery, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Abstract

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.).

Keywords: NET, neuroendocrine tumor; cancer; constriction; diastolic heart failure; pleural effusion.

Publication types

Case Reports