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Table 94.1

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)