Hypertensive crisis, catecholamine cardiomyopathy, and death associated with pseudoephedrine use in a patient with pheochromocytoma

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-96

  Sizemore, Glen W ^a   Scrogin, Karie E ^a   Weisenberg, Elliot S ^b   Weldon Linne, C Michael ^b   Madoo, Omadath B ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; INFUSION FLUID; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DRUG FATALITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ADRENAL TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEATH; FATALITY; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENTAL FINDING; SELF CARE;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CATECHOLAMINES; DEATH; DRUGS, NON-PRESCRIPTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; SELF CARE;

EID: 40649123591     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP.14.1.93     Document Type: Article

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