Pheochromocytoma with Acute Non-cardiac Pulmonary Edema: A Report of One Case and the Review of Literature

Abstract

The present study reports the clinical data of a patient with pheochromocytoma who developed acute non-cardiac pulmonary edema. The patient has already been followed for 2 years after the initial surgery. Based on the case of our patient, and after the review of existing literature, we find that cases of patients who present dyspnea, shock and the lung changes of interstitial without according to respiratory common diseases tend to perform abdominal computed tomography (CT) to exclude pheochromocytoma. In addition, after receiving symptomatic treatment in acute left heart failure and pulmonary edema patients, having the poor effect, we have to consider the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.

Keywords:

• Pheochromocytoma
• CT
• moxifloxacin
• methylprednisolone
• non-cardiac pulmonary edema

Ethical approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. Our hospital does not need ethics approval number when publishing a case report.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Informed consent

The study obtained written informed consent from the patient.