Not So Incidental: Pheochromocytoma in an Adult with Unrepaired Cyanotic Heart Disease

Adunuri, Nikesh and Mrkobrada, Marko (2018) Not So Incidental: Pheochromocytoma in an Adult with Unrepaired Cyanotic Heart Disease. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 5 (10). ISSN 2284-2594

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Abstract

Pheochromocytoma, a rare neuroendocrine tumour, is often encountered in the general internal medicine clinic as an adrenal incidentaloma. Even rarer is its presence in adult cyanotic heart disease, although there are a few documented reports of this association in various paediatric populations, with chronic hypoxia being the likely driving force. Here we present the case of a 38-year-old adult with unrepaired complex cyanotic congenital heart disease with biochemically proven pheochromocytoma presenting as an adrenal incidentaloma to a general internal medicine clinic.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Pheochromocytoma, cyanotic heart disease
Subjects: 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale)
Depositing User: Greta Di Blasio
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2019 10:45
Last Modified: 11 Jun 2019 10:45
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/18784

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