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"Additionally, patients will often have clinical features of carcinoid syndrome, such as facial flushing, chronic severe diarrhoea, bronchospasm, and hypotension ^2,3."

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"Ordinarily, vasoactive neuroendocrine substances (serotonin, bradykinin, histamine, prostaglandin, etc.) produced from NETs that enter the bloodstream are inactivated by the liver ^2,3. However, in the presence of liver metastases from these tumours, the vasoactive neuroendocrine substances can bypass the liver and affect the right side of the heart ^2,3."

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"right-sided cardiac chambers, which demonstrate features of volume overload (e.g. chamber enlargement, paradoxical motion of the interventricular septum, etc.)"

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