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Phaeochromocytoma and cardiomyopathy
Author(s) -
Scott Ian,
Parkes Robert,
Cameron Donald P.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb104520.x
Subject(s) - cardiogenic shock , cardiomyopathy , shock (circulatory) , cardiology , medicine , vasoconstriction , perfusion , catecholamine , cardiac function curve , heart failure , myocardial infarction
This case report describes a patient who presented with severe biventricular cardiac failure and shock, whose cardiac function returned to normal after the removal of a noradrenaline‐secretins benign phaeochromocytoma. A catecholamilie‐induced cardiomyopathy with cardiogenic shock, rather than catecholamine‐mediated peripheral vasoconstriction alone, is postulated as a mechanism to account for the marked hypoperfusion.