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Is It a Pheochromocytoma? [PDF]

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2007
The patient is a 44‐year‐old man with a 4‐year history of intermittently elevated blood pressure (BP) controlled by diet and exercise. Three months before evaluation he described daily “spikes” of BP with sharp unilateral headaches. He was seen in the emergency department with a BP of 212/106 mm Hg and was started on hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg daily ...
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Pheochromocytoma – An ECG diagnosis?

, 2020
Pheochromocytoma is a rare catecholamine-secreting tumor in the adrenal medulla. In some cases, the first symptoms are cardiovascular. We report on two patients with pheochromocytoma, who both presented with bidirectional ventricular tachycardia (BDVT ...
Ljungström, Erik, Lindow, Thomas, Pahlm, Olle, Pahlm, Olle,, Ljungström, Erik,, Lindow, Thomas,, Lund University.   +6 more
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Case Report: Successful Control of Pulmonary Metastatic Pheochromocytoma With Iodine-125 Seed Implantation

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021
Pheochromocytoma with lung metastases is rare in clinics, and the prognosis of metastatic pheochromocytoma is generally poor. In this case, a 57-year-old woman who presented with hypertension and palpitations was diagnosed with left adrenal ...
Hongbing Shi, Chao Wang, Weiguang Qiang, Bai Sun, Hao Wang, Ye Yuan, Wenwei Hu   +6 more
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Effective treatment with mitotane for a canine case of Ectopic Cushing's syndrome-related pheochromocytoma.

Open Veterinary Journal, 2022
In humans, ectopic Cushing's syndrome (ECS) is characterized by hypercortisolemia, which is caused by small lung carcinoma, bronchial carcinoids, and pheochromocytoma.
Konatsu Miura, Hiroshi Sunahara, Yusuke Sakai   +2 more
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Hereditary pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome with a novel mutation in the succinate dehydrogenase subunit B gene in a Japanese family: two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021
Background Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma caused by succinate dehydrogenase gene mutations is called hereditary pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome.
Rei Hirose, Yuya Tsurutani, Chiho Sugisawa, Kosuke Inoue, Sachiko Suematsu, Maki Nagata, Naoki Hasegawa, Yukio Kakuta, Masato Yonamine, Kazuhiro Takekoshi, Noriko Kimura, Jun Saito, Tetsuo Nishikawa   +12 more
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The importance of pheochromocytoma case detection in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1: A case report and review of literature

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2017
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a complex, multi-system genetic disorder that is associated with an increased prevalence of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma compared to the general population, 1.0%–5.7% versus 0.2%–0.6%, respectively.
Joshua M Tate, Janelle B Gyorffy, Jeffrey A Colburn   +2 more
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Extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma with initial symptom of haemoptysis: a case report and review of literature

BMC Surgery, 2021
Background Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-secreting tumour that leads to various symptoms. Haemoptysis is rarely caused by a pheochromocytoma occurring outside the bronchus or thoracic cavity.
Yutaka Endo, Minoru Kitago, Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Yagi, Yuta Abe, Shutaro Hori, Masanori Odaira, Takahiro Yokose, Kaori Kameyama, Yuko Kitagawa   +9 more
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A rare long-term undetected pheochromocytoma leading to Takotsubo syndrome in an older male patient: a case report

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2020
Background Takotsubo syndrome is an uncommon, acute, and reversible cardiomyopathy that occurs primarily in postmenopausal females. The clinical presentation of the syndrome resembles acute coronary syndrome, but coronary angiography reveals no ...
Min Chen, Tong Zhao, Guoping Chen, Shenjiang Hu   +3 more
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Silent Hypertensive Crisis in an Adolescent: First Case Report of Pediatric Pheochromocytoma from Indonesia

Global Pediatric Health, 2021
Secondary hypertension in children, to the rare extent, can be caused by endocrine factors such as pheochromocytoma, an adrenal tumor that secretes catecholamine. Only a few cases have been reported in the past 3 decades.
Cahyani Gita Ambarsari, Eka Laksmi Hidayati, Bambang Tridjaja, Chaidir Arif Mochtar, Haryanti Fauzia Wulandari, Agnes Stephanie Harahap, Angela Grace   +6 more
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Extra-Adrenal Pheochromocytoma Presenting with Life-Threatening Ventricular Tachycardia: A Case Report

Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2004
Extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma develops in paraganglion chromaffin cells of the sympathetic nervous system. It probably represents at least 15% of adult and 30% of childhood pheochromocytomas. Although electrocardiographic abnormalities occur in up to 75%
Wei-Ming Li, Chun-Hsiung Huang, Chin-Ming Su, Wen-Jeng Wu, Yii-Her Chou   +4 more
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