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Phaeochromocytoma presenting with labile blood pressures following coronary artery bypass grafting
Author(s) -
Roy James,
Akhunji Zakir,
Kushwaha Virag,
Mackie James,
Jepson Nigel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12852
Subject(s) - medicine , pheochromocytoma , bypass grafting , artery , coronary artery bypass surgery , cardiology , off pump coronary artery bypass , surgery , differential diagnosis , pathology
Pheochromocytomas have been reported prior to and during coronary artery bypass surgery. We present a patient with an undiagnosed pheochromocytoma who presented with labile hypertension following coronary artery bypass surgery. This case calls attention to the inclusion of an undiagnosed pheochromocytoma in the differential diagnosis for all patients who develop labile hypertension in the postoperative period following cardiac surgery.