Pheochromocytoma in a patient presenting with ventricular fibrillation and carotid dissection: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pheochromocytoma is an endocrine tumour secreting catecholamines, most often revealed by clinical symptoms (headache, palpitations, diaphoresis, or resistant hypertension). Some cases of ventricular arrhythmias were described in the literature, without any formal link between arrhythmia and pheochromocytoma.

Case summary

We report a case of pheochromocytoma discovered after cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation in a 46-year-old patient. The diagnosis was suggested by clinical symptoms (headache, palpitation, and diaphoresis) and suspected on the abdominal computed tomography scan. The diagnosis was corroborated by metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy and finally confirmed by anatomopathological analysis of the operative specimen. The cerebral imaging show

SUBMITTER: Lanot N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7859594 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature