title: Phaeochromocytoma and cardiomyopathy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, QLD.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parkes
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Cameron
mesh_terms: 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