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- A 25-year-old male exhibited symptoms of a hypertensive storm due to pheochromocytoma, a rare tumor affecting the adrenal glands.
- His condition was initially misdiagnosed, as doctors overlooked the underlying cause of his persistent high blood pressure over several years.
- Notable features included early onset of symptoms, fluctuating blood pressure, signs of Marfan's syndrome, elevated troponin levels during hypertension, and episodes of proteinuria and glycosuria without high blood sugar.
Article Abstract
The case of 25 years old male patient with symptoms of hypertensive storm in the course of pheochromocytoma was presented. For some years he had been suffering from moderate increase in arterial blood pressure whose secondary cause was not suspected by physicians examining this patient. In presented case the course of pheochromocytoma has special characteristics, such as: clinical presentation in young age, the course alternate between periods of hypertension and phases of normal blood pressure, physical signs of Marfan's syndrome, increase of troponin level within hypertensive storm, and attributes of malignant hypertension presented as transient proteinuria and glycosuria within normoglycemia.
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