Pheochromocytoma and its Anaesthetic Management

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Matin Md. A1 , Mannan M.A.2 , Azim A3 , Khan Md. M R4

Abstract

"Toxins arc evidently intermittently discharged affecting the sympathetic". This was the comment made by Dr. C.H. Mayo. when he examined the first patient with pheochromocytoma. The danger of excessive release of catecholamines during diagnostic procedure and the surgical manipulation have been a challenge since Mayo reported his first successful resection of pheochromocroma in 1971. The presence of pheochromocrorna is a dramatic and hazardous cause of arterial hypertension which occurs in approximately 0.1% of all cases of hypertension'. Although the frequency of pheochromocytoma is low. its diagnosis is important. bee:1m the hypertension is usually cured (90%) by surgical removal of the tumour and the undetected pheochromocroma is potentionally lethal.

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  1. Assistant Professor. Department of Anaesthesiology

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka

  2. Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesiology

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka

  3. Professor, Department of Surgery

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka

  4. Associate Professor, Department of Surgery

    Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College, Dhaka


Volume 10, Number 1 January 2008
Page: 27-38