Phaeochromocytoma and cardiomyopathy.
This case report describes a patient who presented with severe biventricular cardiac failure and shock, whose cardiac function returned to normal after the removal of a noradrenaline-secreting benign phaeochromocytoma. A catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy with cardiogenic shock, rather than catecholamine-mediated peripheral vasoconstriction alone, is postulated as a mechanism to account for the marked hypoperfusion.
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Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, QLD.
Parkes
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Cameron
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D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000209:etiology*; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000209:etiology