• Int. J. Cardiol. · May 2009

    Letter Case Reports

    Pheochromocytoma crisis presenting with shock and tako-tsubo-like cardiomyopathy.

    • Elisabeth Lassnig, Thomas Weber, Johann Auer, Roland Nömeyer, and Bernd Eber.
    • Int. J. Cardiol. 2009 May 29;134(3):e138-40.

    AbstractPheochromocytoma 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.

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