When to Consider a Catecholamine-Induced Crisis
- Severe hypertension
- Headache, palpitation and sweating
- Acute pulmonary oedema
- Acute regional ischaemia (limb/mesenteric)
- Encephalopathy with hypertension
- Acute chest pain with hypertension
- Heart failure with hypertension
- Acute kidney injury with hypertension
- Any acute presentation in a patient with known genetic associate: neurofibromatosis, von Hippel-Lindau, MEN 2, previous paraganglioma (SDH mutation)
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