Carcinoid Heart Disease: Eight-Year Survival Following Tricuspid Valve Replacement and Pulmonary Valvotomy

A 34-year-old man with carcinoid heart disease underwent tricuspid valve replacement and pulmonary valvotomy with enlargement of the right ventricular outflow tract in October, 1972. He has no cardiac symptoms eight years after operation. Only four previous successful valve replacements in patients with this condition have been reported.