Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheochromocytoma in pregnancy is rare with an incidence of 0.007%. A timely diagnosis is essential since fetal and maternal mortality depends on the early treatment. Our object is to report a pheochromocytoma diagnosed in a patient at the beginning of the pregnancy and to highlight the particularity in the therapeutic care.Case presentation: A 32-year-old female patient was admitted to our endocrinology department for exploration of palpita...

Introduction: Pheochromocytoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor with a prevalence ranging from 0.05% to 0.1%. Those tumors are usually diagnosed in young adults. However, they can also affect children and the elderly, with sporadic cases being more common in older patients. Giving the recent increases in life expectancy and improvements in imaging techniques, there has been an increase in the number of pheochromocytoma in the elderly.Case presentation: An ...