Carcinoid Heart Disease

[...]a more uneventful post-operative recovery has been seen among those patients undergoing concomitant pulmonary valve replacement. [...]the authors recommend pulmonary valve replacement and concomitant enlargement of the RV outflow tract to accommodate a larger prosthesis. [...]in this pioneering series with long-term survival analysis, it is important to highlight that advanced New York Heart Association functional class (symptoms) was identified as a predictor of decreased long-term survival in univariate analysis.