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Isolated Junctional Tachycardia in a Patient with Pheochromocytoma: An Unusual Presentation of an Uncommon Disease

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Pheochromocytoma is a rare disease, which often presents a diagnostic challenge due to a variable symptom presentation complex. We report the case of a child who presented with isolated symptoms of palpitations and was found to have junctional tachycardia with subsequent development of cardiomyopathy. Further evaluation revealed that she had an extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma, which was the cause of her arrhythmia and subsequent symptomatology.

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  1. Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Jeffrey J. Kim, Santiago O. Valdes, Naomi J. Kertesz & Bryan C. Cannon

  2. Lillie Frank Abercrombie Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Texas Children’s Hospital, 6621 Fannin, MC 19345-C, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

    Jeffrey J. Kim

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Kim, J.J., Valdes, S.O., Kertesz, N.J. et al. Isolated Junctional Tachycardia in a Patient with Pheochromocytoma: An Unusual Presentation of an Uncommon Disease. Pediatr Cardiol 29, 986–988 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00246-007-9134-7

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