A serial echocardiographic observation of acute heart injury associated with pheochromocytoma crisis.
There are no previous reports of serial echocardiographic findings in patients with pheochromocytoma. We report a 50-year-old woman with pheochromocytoma who developed acute heart injury. Echocardiography revealed that the acute myocardial injury started early in the base and subsequently extended to the mid-portion of the heart. The injury persisted longer in the base than in the mid-portion.
Yoshinaga
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Department of Cardiology, Kagoshima City Medical Association Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan.
Torii
H
H
Tahara
M
M
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000097:blood / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology