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Anna Battimelli1, Maria Vincenza Polito1, Marco Di Maio1
1School of Medicine, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.
Abstract:
Clinical presentation of pheochromocytoma can vary, and it can sometimes mimic other diseases. Some patients with pheochromocytoma may have atypical presentations, such as clinical features consistent with an acute coronary syndrome, that only later suggest a classical picture of stress-related cardiomyopathy. To our best knowledge, pheochromocytoma has been incidentally revealed in a few cases of catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy and in only 1 case of peripheral arterial thrombosis. This is the first case of pheochromocytoma revealed after left ventricular dysfunction caused by stress-related cardiomyopathy associated with inferior limb artery thrombosis in a patient with a complex cardiovascular history.
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