[Pheochromocytoma--a disease which is worth to keep in mind].
The case of 25 years old male patient with symptoms of hypertensive storm in the course of pheochromocytoma was presented. For some years he had been suffering from moderate increase in arterial blood pressure whose secondary cause was not suspected by physicians examining this patient. In presented case the course of pheochromocytoma has special characteristics, such as: clinical presentation in young age, the course alternate between periods of hypertension and phases of normal blood pressure, physical signs of Marfan's syndrome, increase of troponin level within hypertensive storm, and attributes of malignant hypertension presented as transient proteinuria and glycosuria within normoglycemia.
Pulkowski
Grzegorz
G
University Hospital in Bydgoszcz, Clinical Department of Vessels' and Internal Diseases, Poland. gregpulkowski@gmail.com
Anaszewicz
Marzena
M
Majer
Marcin
M
Mietła
Bogdan
B
Budzyński
Jacek
J
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D000328:Adult; D006029:Glycosuria / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000097:blood / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011507:Proteinuria / Q000209:etiology; D014336:Troponin / Q000378:metabolism
D014336:Troponin