Modern management of pheochromocytoma

Abstract

Preoperative alpha-blockade therapy with phenoxybenzamine followed by open left adrenalectomy.

Nausea, vomiting, and panic attacks in a 50-year-old woman

“…Advances in medical care have reduced the perioperative death rate from 50% to less than 3%. 7,19 ■ CASE CONCLUSION ANd fOLLOW-UP Two months after her initial presentation, the patient underwent open surgery and had the mass removed without complications. She reports that the "panic attacks" have ceased completely.…”