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Intraoperative management of patients with carcinoid heart disease having valvular surgery: a review of one hundred consecutive cases.
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Abstract
Cardiac surgery for carcinoid heart disease is complicated by hemodynamic instability secondary to carcinoid crises, cardiovascular dysfunction, and blood loss. The safety of vasopressors and the benefit of aprotinin during concomitant octreotide administration are uncertain.