Publication details

Feochromocytom v praxi – kazuistika

Title in English Feochromocytoma in daily practice - a case report
Authors

MUNTEANU Hana STARÝ Karel FEIT Josef PROCHÁZKA Vladimír CHASÁKOVÁ Drahomíra VOJTĚCHOVÁ Pavla

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Kazuistiky v diabetologii
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Endocrinology, diabetology, metabolism, nutrition
Keywords feochromocytoma; paraganglioma; secondary hypertension
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Description Ihe feochromocytoma and functional paraganglioma are tumors with an excessive synthesis and metabolization of catecholamines, according to clinical signs and symptoms they are classified as so called secondary hypertensions. Their incidence rates them among rare causes of the secondary hypertension; a failure to diagnose this condition may have serious clinical consequences. The diagnosis is confirmed based on typical clinical signs and symptoms, clinical laboratory tests and imaging methods. A surgical removal of the tumor following previous pharmacological treatment with alpha-blockers represents a causal therapy. The description of our case shows diagnostic confusion in acute conditions associated with the hypertension crisis and an urgency to consider rarer diagnoses during the routine examination.

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