Clinical Features and Prognosis of Patients with Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Retrospective Multicentric Study of 276 Patients
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Clinical Features and Prognosis of Patients with Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Retrospective Multicentric Study of 276 Patients. / Fijalkowski, Robert; Reher, Dominik; Rinke, Anja; Gress, Thomas M; Schrader, Jörg; Baum, Richard P; Kaemmerer, Daniel; Hörsch, Dieter.
In: NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, Vol. 112, No. 6, 2022, p. 547-554.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Clinical Features and Prognosis of Patients with Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease: A Retrospective Multicentric Study of 276 Patients
AU - Fijalkowski, Robert
AU - Reher, Dominik
AU - Rinke, Anja
AU - Gress, Thomas M
AU - Schrader, Jörg
AU - Baum, Richard P
AU - Kaemmerer, Daniel
AU - Hörsch, Dieter
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - INTRODUCTION: Carcinoid syndrome is the most frequent functional syndrome of neuroendocrine neoplasia. It is characterized by flushing, diarrhea, wheezing, hypotension, and exanthema and may cause carcinoid heart disease.METHODS: We assessed clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease in 276 patients from 3 referral centers.RESULTS: Carcinoid syndrome patients had a mean age of 57 years (range 21-84) and a normal BMI of 24.9 (SD 4.5; range 13.8-39.6). Most primaries were of small bowel or unknown primaries with distant metastasis in 94.6%. Flushing was the most frequent symptom in 74.3% of patients, followed by diarrhea in 68.8%, and wheezing in 40.9%. Pain was described by 45.3%, weakness by 23.5%, and weight loss of >10% in 6 months by 30.1% of patients. Carcinoid heart disease was diagnosed in 37.3% of patients (n = 104) by echocardiography and involved predominantly in the tricuspid valve. Combinations with other valve defects were common. Somatostatin analogs were taken by 80.4% of patients and 17% needed additional loperamide/opium tincture. Surgery and peptide receptor radiotherapy were most frequent treatments. The median survival of patients with carcinoid syndrome after diagnosis was 9 years. Prognosis was significantly impaired by male sex and diagnosis of carcinoid heart disease but surprisingly significantly increased by the presence of symptoms flushing and weakness.DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: Carcinoid syndrome is associated with extensive disease and primaries in small bowels or of unknown primary. Weight loss, weakness, and pain are frequent, and carcinoid heart disease is diagnosed in more than one-third of patients.
AB - INTRODUCTION: Carcinoid syndrome is the most frequent functional syndrome of neuroendocrine neoplasia. It is characterized by flushing, diarrhea, wheezing, hypotension, and exanthema and may cause carcinoid heart disease.METHODS: We assessed clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease in 276 patients from 3 referral centers.RESULTS: Carcinoid syndrome patients had a mean age of 57 years (range 21-84) and a normal BMI of 24.9 (SD 4.5; range 13.8-39.6). Most primaries were of small bowel or unknown primaries with distant metastasis in 94.6%. Flushing was the most frequent symptom in 74.3% of patients, followed by diarrhea in 68.8%, and wheezing in 40.9%. Pain was described by 45.3%, weakness by 23.5%, and weight loss of >10% in 6 months by 30.1% of patients. Carcinoid heart disease was diagnosed in 37.3% of patients (n = 104) by echocardiography and involved predominantly in the tricuspid valve. Combinations with other valve defects were common. Somatostatin analogs were taken by 80.4% of patients and 17% needed additional loperamide/opium tincture. Surgery and peptide receptor radiotherapy were most frequent treatments. The median survival of patients with carcinoid syndrome after diagnosis was 9 years. Prognosis was significantly impaired by male sex and diagnosis of carcinoid heart disease but surprisingly significantly increased by the presence of symptoms flushing and weakness.DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION: Carcinoid syndrome is associated with extensive disease and primaries in small bowels or of unknown primary. Weight loss, weakness, and pain are frequent, and carcinoid heart disease is diagnosed in more than one-third of patients.
U2 - 10.1159/000518651
DO - 10.1159/000518651
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 34348326
VL - 112
SP - 547
EP - 554
JO - NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
JF - NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
SN - 0028-3835
IS - 6
ER -