[Acute cardiac failure revealing a paraganglioma].
Therapy of cardiomyopathy is usually symptomatic. So, the etiology is often only superficially investigated. However, because of their curability, rare causes must be sought for. We report a case of acute cardiac failure in a young female patient with severe hypertension of recent onset. Urinary catecholamines analysis and medical imaging demonstrated a paraaortic paraganglioma. After coelioscopic resection, cardiac function recovered.
Martin y Porras
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M
Service de Chirurgie, Université de Liège.
Hamoir
E
E
Defechereux
T
T
Delhougne
V
V
Kulbertus
H
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001011:Aorta / Q000473:pathology*; D002303:Cardiac Output, Low / Q000209:etiology*; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000652:urine; D004562:Electrocardiography; D005260:Female; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis
D002395:Catecholamines