Pheochromocytoma crisis presenting with shock and tako-tsubo-like cardiomyopathy.
Pheochromocytoma usually presents with hypertension but it may also be an unusual aetiology of cardiogenic shock in order to catecholamine induced myocardial dysfunction. We report the devastating course of a patient with tako-tsubo like apical cardiomyopathy during pheocytoma crisis who presented with classical transient left ventricular apical ballooning 6 months before.
Lassnig
Elisabeth
E
Weber
Thomas
T
Auer
Johann
J
Nömeyer
Roland
R
Eber
Bernd
B
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012770:Shock, Cardiogenic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D054549:Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*