Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Besides medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), increased calcitonin serum concentrations may be due, rarely, to neuroendocrine tumour (NET) ectopic secretion, especially those of the foregut (pancreatic/lung). Patients with NETs and right-sided heart failure due to cardiac carcinoid have a worse prognosis than those presenting without. Case presentation: We present the case of a 72-year-old female with a history of an initially considered well-...