Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Although pheochromocytoma with fatal myocardial infarction has been described over 50 years ago, diagnostics focused on catecholamine secretion is not a routine procedure post myocardial infarction.Case report: A 49-year-old man, previously healthy, was admitted to the hospital in June 2003, with severe pulmonary oedema. Myocardial infarction was diagnosed on the basis of an increase in markers of myocardial necrosis. There was also found a...