-
Case Reports
Stress-related cardiomyopathy, ventricular dysfunction, artery thrombosis: a hidden pheochromocytoma.
- Anna Battimelli, Maria Vincenza Polito, Marco Di Maio, Susanna Poto, Luciana Pierro, Domenico Caggiano, and Federico Piscione.
- School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. Electronic address: spunzilla_@hotmail.it.
- Am J Emerg Med. 2014 Mar 1;32(3):286.e5-9.
AbstractClinical presentation of pheochromocytoma can vary, and it can sometimes mimic other diseases. Some patients with pheochromocytoma may have atypical presentations, such as clinical features consistent with an acute coronary syndrome, that only later suggest a classical picture of stress-related cardiomyopathy. To our best knowledge, pheochromocytoma has been incidentally revealed in a few cases of catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy and in only 1 case of peripheral arterial thrombosis. This is the first case of pheochromocytoma revealed after left ventricular dysfunction caused by stress-related cardiomyopathy associated with inferior limb artery thrombosis in a patient with a complex cardiovascular history.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..