A (not) completely incidental finding in the field of polymorbidity in a geriatric patient. Pheochromocytoma.
Authors:
Mykhailo Voloshchak
Authors‘ workplace:
Oddělení následné péče, Nemocnice Kutná Hora
1; Oddělení následné péče, Sušická nemocnice
2
Published in:
Geriatrie a Gerontologie 2025, 14, č. 2: 85-88
Category:
doi:
https://doi.org/10.61568/geri/50-6499/20250512/140522
Overview
The geriatric patient is almost always characterized by polymorbidity, polypragmatism and the resulting drug-drug, drug-disease, disease-disease, etc. interactions; often with atypical disease courses: oligosymptomatology, microsymptomatology, non-specific symptoms; i.e. diseases in old age are typically atypical. Although in a holistic approach to the patient, especially a geriatric one, we logically think first (we want to exclude or confirm) diseases and causes that “occur frequently”, we should not neglect diseases that are less frequently occurring but clinically significant – especially pheochromocytoma.
Keywords:
genetic testing – geriatric patient – Catecholamines – arterial hypertension – pheochromocytoma – secondary
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