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Giant Pheochromocytoma Resection Using Partial Cardiopulmonary Bypass and Blood Purification Therapy.
JCEM Case Rep
November 2024
Department of Urology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan 830-0011.
A 44-year-old man was diagnosed with a giant pheochromocytoma in the right retroperitoneal cavity following treatment for heart failure. Subsequent to improvement in cardiac function, the patient underwent a laparotomy to excise the tumor. Due to its considerable size, partial cardiopulmonary bypass and blood purification therapy were initiated to stabilize hemodynamics during the surgical intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCryptococcal invasion: a comprehensive case of adrenal and systemic infection amid immunosuppression.
BMC Infect Dis
October 2024
Department of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Anhui Medical University, Jixi Road 218, Shushan District, Hefei, Anhui, 230022, China.
Article Synopsis
- - The case report discusses a patient with disseminated cryptococcosis, a rare fungal infection affecting the lungs and central nervous system, complicated by meningitis and pneumonia, along with unusual adrenal involvement.
- - This patient was immunosuppressed due to primary myelofibrosis and Ruxolitinib treatment, showing significant findings in imaging scans that led to the discovery of adrenal cryptococcosis through surgical intervention and pathology.
- - After a month of oral antifungal treatment, including amphotericin B and other medications, the patient showed improved outcomes with reduced antigen levels and no signs of recurrence during follow-up visits.
Presentation, Management, and Outcomes of Patients with Giant Pheochromocytoma: Retrospective Cohort Study.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab
September 2024
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
Context: Data on giant pheochromocytomas (PHEO), defined based on size ≥ 10 cm, are scarce.
Objective: to compare presentation, management, and outcomes of patients with giant vs non-giant PHEOs.
Design: retrospective cohort study, 2000-2023.
Giant Cystic Pheochromocytoma Associated With Neurofibromatosis Type 1: A Case Report.
Cureus
May 2024
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology, Metabolic Diseases and Nutrition, Hassan II University Hospital, Fes, MAR.
Pheochromocytomas are tumors that develop from the chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. More than 40% of cases of pheochromocytomas are associated with genetic conditions such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) or von Hippel-Lindau syndrome. Cystic pheochromocytomas are rare, generally asymptomatic, and thus of bigger size at the time of diagnosis.
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