especially as a first step in testing a patient with symptoms of a pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma and elevated catecholamine levels. Modern multislice scanners are very quick, have a very high ...

The 2004 WHO classification of endocrine tumors defines pheochromocytoma as a tumor arising from catecholamine-producing chromaffin cells in the adrenal medulla -- an intra-adrenal paraganglioma.

Patients diagnosed with pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma ... abnormal endocrine activity due to the synthesis and release of catecholamines that predispose to cardiovascular disease.

Schaetzel believes Floyd may have died due to a “catecholamine crisis when his paraganglioma secreted excessive levels of catecholamines,” according to his discovery motion. It could have been ...

His lawyers believe Floyd may have died due to a “catecholamine crisis when his paraganglioma secreted excessive levels of catecholamines,” according to the discovery motion filed by them on ...