ea0028p107 | Clinical practice/governance and case reports | SFEBES2012
Ahluwalia Rupa
, Hung John
, Sreemantula Gayatri
, Vora Jiten
Background: We report a case of a 51-year-old man with functioning cardiac paraganglioma diagnosed subsequent to a primary coronary event. Following a myocardial infarction aged 39; he was incidentally found to have a cardiac tumour in the pericardial sac. This was assumed to be benign and followed up with serial imaging. Recent scans suggested a possible paraganglioma with evidence of very slow tumour growth leading to an endocrinology referral. On further questioning he did ...