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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pineda Pompa, Luis Ramón
• Barrera-Ramírez, Carlos Felipe
• Martínez-Valdez, Jesús
• Rodríguez, Pedro Domínguez
• Guzmán, Carlos E

Titel

Pheochromocytoma-induced acute pulmonary edema and reversible catecholamine cardiomyopathy mimicking acute myocardial infarction

Ist Teil von

• Revista portuguesa de cardiologia, 2004-04, Vol.23 (4), p.561-568

Ort / Verlag

Portugal

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Acute noncardiogenic pulmonary edema and catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy as the first presentations of pheochromocytoma are uncommon events, but usually rapidly fatal. A 36-year-old man presented acute pulmonary edema in a setting of hypertensive emergency after arthroscopy, later developing catecholamine-induced cardiotoxicity mimicking an acute myocardial infarction, with elevation of cardiac damage markers, normal coronary arteries, and with full recovery from electrical abnormalities. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a right adrenal mass. Elevated levels of catecholamines and metanephrines, and a positive 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine scan confirmed a pheochromocytoma. Once the patient had been hemodynamically stabilized, he was successfully operated.