A 35-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with the following complaints, headache, sweating, anxiety, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and severe hypertension. The technical images (abdominal CT, scintigraphic octreotide scan and renal arteriography) revealed the presence of a left adrenal pheochromocytoma and stenosis of the renal artery. Ten days following adrenalectomy, watery diarrhea appeared. The long-acting somatostatin analogue octreotide (LAR, 30 mg/month, i.m.), was started, and after 2 weeks diarrhea decreased and gradually disappeared. In conclusion, we were confronted with an unusual case of pheochromocytoma associated with renal artery stenosis and the appearance of watery diarrhea some days after surgical treatment. Treatment with octreotide brought about the remission of diarrhea in this patient. Copyright (C) 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel.
A case of pheochromocytoma with renal artery stenosis and post-surgical watery diarrhea / C., Blasi; F., D'Amore; DELLE FAVE, Gianfranco; R., Massa; M. G., Reale; C., Caliumi; Letizia, Claudio. - In: HORMONE RESEARCH. - ISSN 0301-0163. - 56:3-4(2001), pp. 130-133. [10.1159/000048105]
A case of pheochromocytoma with renal artery stenosis and post-surgical watery diarrhea
DELLE FAVE, Gianfranco;LETIZIA, Claudio
2001
Abstract
A 35-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with the following complaints, headache, sweating, anxiety, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and severe hypertension. The technical images (abdominal CT, scintigraphic octreotide scan and renal arteriography) revealed the presence of a left adrenal pheochromocytoma and stenosis of the renal artery. Ten days following adrenalectomy, watery diarrhea appeared. The long-acting somatostatin analogue octreotide (LAR, 30 mg/month, i.m.), was started, and after 2 weeks diarrhea decreased and gradually disappeared. In conclusion, we were confronted with an unusual case of pheochromocytoma associated with renal artery stenosis and the appearance of watery diarrhea some days after surgical treatment. Treatment with octreotide brought about the remission of diarrhea in this patient. Copyright (C) 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
