Case report: Catecholamine cardiomyopathy in children with neuroblastoma.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many endocrine diseases, such as neuroblastoma (NB), can be linked with acquired cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Neuroblastoma's cardiovascular manifestations are typically hypertension, electrocardiogram (ECG) changes, and conduction disturbances.

Case presentation

A 5-year-old 8-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital with ventricular hypertrophy and hypertension (HT) and heart failure. She had no previous history of HT. On color doppler echocardiography, the left atrium and left ventricle were enlarged. The left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) was as low as 40%, and the ventricular septum and left ventricular free wall were thickened. The internal diameters of both coronary arteries were widened. Abdominal computed tomography scan (CT) demonstrated a

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947659 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature