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Query: UMLS:C0012739 (disseminated intravascular coagulation)
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The unusual case of a 65-year-old woman with intermittent hypotension, fever, pulmonary edema and coma as initial presentation of pheochromocytoma is reported. The patient developed respiratory, cardiac and renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation and liver dysfunction. She had to be defibrillated on multiple occasions, occurring in periods of severe hypertension. After successful surgical removal of a pheochromocytoma a thyroid medullary carcinoma was detected. Several members of the patients family had presented with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN II).
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PMID:Multiple organ failure and coma as initial presentation of pheochromocytoma in a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type II A. 810 32

Unrecognized phaeochromocytoma during pregnancy is dangerous for both fetus and mother. We report here a case of phaeochromocytoma crisis in Sipple's syndrome associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation that developed following intrauterine death. Early evacuation of the uterus seems advisable, to rid the patient with phaeochromocytoma of further complications associated with fetal death.
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PMID:Phaeochromocytoma crisis in Sipple's syndrome with intrauterine death and disseminated intravascular coagulation. 1563 49