Phaeochromocytoma in a 86-year-old patient presenting with reversible myocardial dysfunction

Blood Pressure

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 383-386

  Szwench, Elzbieta ^a   Peczkowska, Mariola ^a   Marczewski, Krzysztof ^c   Klisiewicz, Anna ^a   Michałowska, Ilona ^a   Ciuba, Iwona ^c   Januszewicz, Magdalena ^b   Prejbisz, Aleksander ^a   Hoffman, Piotr ^a   Januszewicz, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c Regional Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

catecholamine cardiomyopathy; hypertension; phaeochromocytoma; very old patient

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CATECHOLAMINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; METADRENALIN; METOXYCATECHOLAMINE; TROPONIN I; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL NECROSIS; ADRENALECTOMY; AGED; AKINESIA; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINERGIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LAPAROSCOPY; MENTAL HEALTH; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SWEATING; SYSTOLE; TACHYCARDIA;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATECHOLAMINES; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; POLAND; SYSTOLE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 81255165781     PISSN: 08037051     EISSN: 16511999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08037051.2011.588773     Document Type: Article

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