Carcinoid heart failure in a duodenal neuroendocrine tumor: role of cardiac surgery in a challenging patient and brief review of the literature.

The article present a case study of a 63-year-old White female with chronic diarrhea, hematochezia, and abdominal pain. It mentions a total-body computed tomography (CT) scan revealed bilateral pleural effusion, enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes, ascites, lytic lesion of the lumbar vertebra, multiple liver metastases, and a lesion of the duodenum/pancreas uncinate process; and also mentions a chest CT scan revealed abundant bilateral pleural/pericardial effusion and slightly enlarged heart.