“…Preoperative echocardiography is the cornerstone in the diagnostic workup of these patients, as catecholamine excess can induce several complications other than, or subsequent to, HT, including seizures and heart failure, cardiomyopathy, cardiomegaly and cardiogenic shock [3,6,15,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. All in all, preoperative HT control has lowered reported mortality from 13% to 45% to 0%-3% in patients with catecholaminesecreting tumors [27].…”