Anesthetic Management for Patients With Pheochromocytoma : Series of Three Cases

1.1. Background. This study describes a case series that addresses the complex anesthetic management of adrenalectomy for patients with pheochromocytoma. It is a rare tumor, originating in the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla and a catecholamine-secreting agent, whose most common triad of symptoms is headache, sweating and tachycardia. 1.2. Cases: The first case corresponds to a 47-year-old woman with a history of three acute myocardial infarctions with a lesion located unilaterally in the left adrenal gland. After adrenal removal and due to persistence of hypertension, it was necessary to perform a left nephrectomy. The second case describes the conduction of a multimodal and opioid-free anesthesia of a 26-year-old female patient with dilated cardiomyopathy who underwent video laparoscopic right adrenalectomy The first report involves the case of a 14-year-old male patient with von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome, who underwent bilateral open adrenalectomy. All three cases were successfully preoperatively prepared and operated on and were discharged home between the 5th and 6th day compensated and without physiological changes. No genetic study of the three patients was performed. Continuous epidural anesthesia was performed in two patients, without hypotension and need for vasopressor. 1.3. Conclusion: In this pathology, it is essential to emphasize the extreme importance of the multidisciplinary approaches carried out in the three cases. We can affirm affirm that the favorable outcomes were only possible thanks to a great joint effort and judicious for monitoring the Endocrinology and Pediatrics services and for the coordinated relationship between the anesthetic and surgical teams, which were essential for obtaining hospital discharge in the first six days after surgery