【用戶】Chris
【年級】高三下
【評論內容】5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) is the main metabolite of serotonin.Carcinoid tumors elaborate bioactive products (e.g.,serotonin, kallikrein, bradykinins, histamine, prostaglandins,and tachykinins P and K) that can cause cardiac lesions. The precise agent responsible is uncertain, although it is presumably rapidly etabolized in lung and liver, because cardiac lesions do not occur unless there is extensive hepatic metastatic spread. Right-sided heart lesions (valvular and endocardial) predominate.• Lesions are characterized by plaque-like intimal thickening (composed of smooth muscle cell...