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A Novel Method: Super-selective Adrenal Venous Sampling
Published on: September 15, 2017
Exceptional association of Budd-Chiari syndrome with pheochromocytoma
F Menzou1, A Rechach1, M Charifi1
1Internal medicine and Cardiology Department, University of Blida 1, University hospital of Douéra, Douéra, Algeria.
Abstract:
We are reporting a case revealed by an abdomino-thoracic painful syndrome associated with multi-organ failure. A 61-year-old hypertensive woman was hospitalized for the management of hypertensive emergency associating acute coronary syndrome and abdominal pain. A thoraco-abdomino-pelvic CT-scan showed a right adrenal mass associated with hepatic vein thrombosis. After medical preparation, an adrenalectomy was performed by way of open surgery; the study of the surgical specimen found a pheochromocytoma score PASS 4. The follow-up was marked by the normalization of blood pressure and biological abnormalities.
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