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An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma
Pheochromocytoma is a rare cause of hypertension, but it could have severe consequences if not recognized and treated appropriately. Pheochromocytoma classically presents with paroxysms of hypertension and adrenergic symptoms including classic triad of episodic headache, sweating, and tachycardia. T...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29422732 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_407_17 |
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author | Garg, Sunil Kumar Garg, Pragya Urumdas, Mehmet |
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description | Pheochromocytoma is a rare cause of hypertension, but it could have severe consequences if not recognized and treated appropriately. Pheochromocytoma classically presents with paroxysms of hypertension and adrenergic symptoms including classic triad of episodic headache, sweating, and tachycardia. The clinical presentation of pheochromocytoma can mimic a number of other medical conditions including migraine, cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, and stroke, thus making the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma difficult, and treatment is directed toward presenting issue rather than underlying problem in such patients. We present a case of a 41-year-old male patient who presented with cerebellar infarct and found to have aortic thrombi and later developed acute myocardial infaction during same hospitalization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of this kind. |
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spelling | pubmed-57930212018-02-08 An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma Garg, Sunil Kumar Garg, Pragya Urumdas, Mehmet Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Pheochromocytoma is a rare cause of hypertension, but it could have severe consequences if not recognized and treated appropriately. Pheochromocytoma classically presents with paroxysms of hypertension and adrenergic symptoms including classic triad of episodic headache, sweating, and tachycardia. The clinical presentation of pheochromocytoma can mimic a number of other medical conditions including migraine, cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, and stroke, thus making the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma difficult, and treatment is directed toward presenting issue rather than underlying problem in such patients. We present a case of a 41-year-old male patient who presented with cerebellar infarct and found to have aortic thrombi and later developed acute myocardial infaction during same hospitalization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of this kind. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5793021/ /pubmed/29422732 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_407_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Garg, Sunil Kumar Garg, Pragya Urumdas, Mehmet An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma |
title | An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma |
title_full | An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma |
title_fullStr | An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma |
title_full_unstemmed | An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma |
title_short | An Interesting Presentation of Pheochromocytoma |
title_sort | interesting presentation of pheochromocytoma |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793021/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29422732 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_407_17 |
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