Real-world treatment patterns, resource use and costs of treating uncontrolled carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease: a retrospective Swedish study.

CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a comprehensive overview of the treatment patterns and burden of uncontrolled CS symptoms and CHD using Swedish national register data. Increases in medical interventions and examinations HRU and increased SSA use suggest that SSA dose escalation alone may not effectively control the symptoms associated with uncontrolled CS, highlighting an unmet treatment need in this patient group. PMID: 30449217 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Scand J Gastroenterol Source Type: research