Reversible Right-Sided Heart Failure Secondary to Carcinoid Crisis

License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Carcinoid crisis is an infrequent and little-described complication of neuroendocrine tumors that can be life threatening. It may develop during induction of anesthesia, intraoperatively, during tumor manipulation and arterial embolization, or even spontaneously. The massive release of neuroendocrine substances can lead to potentially fatal complications. Somatostatin analogs inhibit the release of these substances and are themainstay of treatment.The following case report describes a patient with reversible acute right-sided heart failure posterior to hepatic artery embolization. 1. Case Presentation A 41-year-old female patient without a significant medical history presented symptoms that evolved over a period of one year, initiating with jaundice and epigastric pain. A com-puterized axial tomography of the abdomen was performed, which showed an increased liver size with multiple hepatic lesions and dilation of the intrahepatic bile duct. Magnetic resonance cholangiography evidenced a solid 9 cm mas