Pheochromocytoma Is Characterized by Catecholamine-Mediated Myocarditis, Focal and Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis, and Myocardial Dysfunction - Ferreira, Vanessa M.; Marcelino, Mafalda; Piechnik, Stefan K.; Marini, Claudia; Karamitsos, Theodoros D.; Ntusi, Ntobeko A.B.; Francis, Jane M.; Robson, Matthew D.; Arnold, J. Ranjit; Mihai, Radu; Thomas, Julia D.J.; Herincs, Maria; et al. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2016)
Keywords: Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - complications; Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - metabolism; Adrenal Gland Neoplasms - surgery; cardiac magnetic resonance; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathy; Cardiovascular; Case-Control Studies; catecholamine toxicity; Catecholamines - metabolism; Colleges & universities; Diastole; Endocrinology; Female; Fibrosis; Genotype & phenotype; Heart - diagnostic imaging; Heart attacks; Heart failure; Humans; Hypertension; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine; Male; Middle Aged; Mortality; Myocarditis - etiology; Myocardium - pathology; Pericardial Effusion - etiology; Pheochromocytoma - complications; Pheochromocytoma - metabolism; Pheochromocytoma - surgery; Prospective Studies; Stroke Volume; Systole; T1 mapping; Variance analysis; Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - etiology; LVEF; CMR; LV; IQR; LGE; cardiac magnetic resonance; catecholamine toxicity; T1 mapping; LVH; interquartile range; left ventricular ejection fraction; T 1 mapping; left ventricular hypertrophy; late gadolinium enhancement; left ventricular; T mapping