Magnesium Infusion for Refractory Non-surgical Pheochromocytoma Crisis
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Pheochromocytoma crisis: the use of magnesium sulfate.
Pheochromocytoma crisis is a rare life-threatening event that may appear with a variety of clinical symptoms. We present three cases of life-threatening crisis in which magnesium sulfate was particularly beneficial in controlling symptoms and signs when more conventional forms of therapy had failed. Two patients presented with hypertensive encephalopathy, and the third presented with catecholam...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2325-9205
DOI: 10.12746/swrccc.v7i30.531