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Phaeochromocytoma: delayed diagnosis with severe consequences

Authors :
Stefan Buchholz
Dave Lutchmann
Chloe Keightley
Source :
European Heart Journal. 31:1336-1336
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2010.

Abstract

A 69-year-old previously healthy woman presented in extremis with multiorgan failure after 7 days of diarrhoea, abdominal discomfort, fatigue, and increasing pain and discoloration of her distal limbs. Initial assessment demonstrated a drowsy, obese woman with marked distal acrocyanosis and early gangrene ( Panels A–C ). Doppler ultrasound of her limbs showed absent flow signal in the distal left ulnar artery and in both the left distal posterior and anterior tibial arteries but normal flow elsewhere. There was …

Details

ISSN :
15229645 and 0195668X
Volume :
31
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
European Heart Journal
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........643067932b29751fbc0f91aa7f082592
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehq035