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Case Reports
. 2022 Jun 10;16(1):233.
doi: 10.1186/s13256-022-03378-8.

Pheochromocytoma triggered by coronavirus disease 2019: a case report

Hoda Naghshineh  1 , Amirhossein Hasanpour  2 , Naghmeh Ziaei  3 , Mahmoud Sadeghi  1 , Neda Meftah  1
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Case Reports

Pheochromocytoma triggered by coronavirus disease 2019: a case report

Hoda Naghshineh et al. J Med Case Rep. .

Abstract

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 is an infectious disease with many presentations, and many of its effects on the human body are still unknown. Pheochromocytoma is a neuroendocrine tumor that may occur sporadically or be a manifestation of a hereditary disease line multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2.

Case presentation: In this study, we report a case of an Iranian patient infected with coronavirus disease 2019, causing unusual presentations of pheochromocytoma, including myocarditis and cerebrovascular involvement.

Conclusions: We discovered a case of pheochromocytoma as an unusual presentation of COVID-19. In further investigations we also discovered thyroid medullary carcinoma and at the end MEN 2 syndrome was diagnosed. After proper treatment many symptoms were eliminated.

Keywords: COVID-19; Cardiomyopathy; Case report; Coronavirus disease; MEN-2 syndrome; Pheochromocytoma.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.

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