Insulin-requiring diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, and anginal chest pains as prominent features of pheochromocytoma.
We report the case of a 60-year-old man with recent onset of poorly controlled diabetes mellitus, frequent anginal chest pains, paroxysmal hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and mild renal insufficiency. The patient was found to have pheochromocytoma of the left adrenal gland, resection of which resulted in total resolution of diabetes, hypertension, chest pain, hyperlipidemia and renal failure.
Rofougaran
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Department of Internal Medicine, St. Louis University Health Sciences Center, Mo. 63110, USA.
Mooraki
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Bastani
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D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology