[Asymmetric septal myocardial hypertrophy associated with pheochromocytoma: reversibility of cardiopathy after extirpation of chromaffin tumor].
Left adrenal pheochromocytoma and mesenteric paraganglioma were diagnosed in a 52-year-old female with diabetes mellitus (fasting blood glucose 14.5 mmol/l), hypertension and myocardial asymmetric septal hypertrophy (septal/left ventricular free wall thickness 1.31). Carbohydrate metabolism and cardiac disease returned to normal after the resection of both tumors (fasting blood glucose 5.2 mmol/l, septal/left ventricular free wall thickness 1.10). This is the first patient reported in the Spanish literature in whom asymmetric septal hypertrophy has been correlated with the hypersecretion of catecholamines.
Miranda Carús
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ME
García Puig
J
J
Casas
E
E
de Soria
R F
RF
Oliver
J
J
Alvarez de la Marina
J R
JR
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery
Hipertrofia miocárdica septal asimétrica asociada a feocromocitoma: reversibilidad de la cardiopatía tras la extirpación del tumor cromafín.