Catastrophic Cardiac Hypokinesis and Multiple-Organ Failure After Surgery in a Patient With an Undiagnosed Pheochromocytoma: Emergency Excision of the Tumor

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 863-866

  Siddik Sayyid, Sahar M ^a   Dabbous, Aliya S ^a   Shaaban, Jamil A ^a   Daaboul, Dima G ^a   Baraka, Anis S ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

cardiac hypokinesia; multiple organ failure; pulmonary edema; undiagnosed pheochromocytoma

Indexed keywords

CISATRACURIUM; ESMOLOL; FENTANYL; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IMIPENEM; ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; PRAZOSIN; PROPOFOL; PROPRANOLOL; REMIFENTANIL; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUSCULTATION; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CANCER SURGERY; CAPNOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CATASTROPHIC CARDIAC HYPOKINESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASAL COAGULATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART PALPITATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKINESIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG EDEMA; MASTECTOMY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 36549060536     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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