A Peculiar Cause of Shock: Analysing Two Clinical Cases
João Oliveira, Alberto Costa-Silva, Luís Vale, Daniel Costa, Rui Almeida-Pinto, Carlos Martins-Silva, Tiago Antunes-Lopes, João Silva · 2023
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Oliveira and co-authors describe two unusual cases of shock in a paper from two thousand twenty-three. Both patients turned out to have a rare tumor of the adrenal gland that releases stress hormones. Such tumors more often cause bursts of very high blood pressure, so shock as the first sign is rare and puzzling.
The first patient, a woman aged forty-nine, also had a severe kidney infection and a heart pattern linked to stress. The second, a woman aged twenty-eight, came in with headache and nausea and signs of shock. Scans found a large adrenal mass in each case. Both improved with blocking drugs and then surgery to remove the gland. Tests confirmed the tumor type in both.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | João Oliveira, Alberto Costa-Silva, Luís Vale, Daniel Costa, Rui Almeida-Pinto, Carlos Martins-Silva, Tiago Antunes-Lopes, João Silva |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |