Looking Deep Into the Palpitation – Pheochromocytoma Presenting as Sinus Node Dysfunction

A 23-year-old male came to the outpatient department with a history of intermittent palpitations and headaches for the past six to eight months. He was diagnosed with hypertension and had a junctional rhythm on an electrocardiogram (ECG). On further workup for his hypertension, he was found to have...

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Autores principales: Shrivastava, Abhinav, Nath, Ranjit K, Aggarwal, Puneet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34548968
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17151
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description A 23-year-old male came to the outpatient department with a history of intermittent palpitations and headaches for the past six to eight months. He was diagnosed with hypertension and had a junctional rhythm on an electrocardiogram (ECG). On further workup for his hypertension, he was found to have elevated levels of serum metanephrines and computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scan revealed pheochromocytoma. He was subsequently operated upon and his arrhythmia subsided after surgery. We discuss our approach to this scenario, which leads us to a rather rare cause of sinus node dysfunction.
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spelling pubmed-84370822021-09-20 Looking Deep Into the Palpitation – Pheochromocytoma Presenting as Sinus Node Dysfunction Shrivastava, Abhinav Nath, Ranjit K Aggarwal, Puneet Cureus Cardiology A 23-year-old male came to the outpatient department with a history of intermittent palpitations and headaches for the past six to eight months. He was diagnosed with hypertension and had a junctional rhythm on an electrocardiogram (ECG). On further workup for his hypertension, he was found to have elevated levels of serum metanephrines and computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scan revealed pheochromocytoma. He was subsequently operated upon and his arrhythmia subsided after surgery. We discuss our approach to this scenario, which leads us to a rather rare cause of sinus node dysfunction. Cureus 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8437082/ /pubmed/34548968 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17151 Text en Copyright © 2021, Shrivastava et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Looking Deep Into the Palpitation – Pheochromocytoma Presenting as Sinus Node Dysfunction
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title_short Looking Deep Into the Palpitation – Pheochromocytoma Presenting as Sinus Node Dysfunction
title_sort looking deep into the palpitation – pheochromocytoma presenting as sinus node dysfunction
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437082/
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