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Carcinoid Heart Disease: Diagnostic Value of Cardiac MRI in a Patient With Metastatic Small‑Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumor Cover

Carcinoid Heart Disease: Diagnostic Value of Cardiac MRI in a Patient With Metastatic Small‑Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumor

Open Access
|Feb 2026

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Figure 1

Primary small intestine NET with diffuse liver metastases: (A) coronal contrast‑enhanced CT shows a hypodense mesenterial mass (arrow) with central calcifications. (B) Al18F‑NOTA‑Octreotide PET‑CT shows multiple hyperenhancing liver nodules.

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Figure 2

Pulmonary valve regurgitation of 30%: axial phase‑contrast (Q‑flow) cardiac MRI showing retrograde flow into the right ventricle during diastole.

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Figure 3

Right heart dilation and diastolic ‘D‑shaping’: axial (A) and sagittal (B) cine cardiac MR images showing dilation of the right atrium and ventricle with flattening of the interventricular septum ‘D‑shaping’ during diastole.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.4191 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8281
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 14, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 19, 2026
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Published on: Feb 13, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Simon Kaessner, Thiebault Saveyn, Benjamin Leenknegt, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.