Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Pheochromocytoma is associated with systemic inflammation, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Hypothesising a putative effect of catecholamines on immune cells, we investigated the relationship between plasma metanephrine levels and haematological parameters – as surrogates for systemic inflammation – in patients with pheochromocytoma. Moreover, we aimed to assess the influence of preoperative α-blockade treatment on the inflammation-based sc...