Typical symptoms of pheochromocytoma include blood pressure changes, cardiac changes, metabolic disorders, as well as other symptoms, and patients should seek medical treatment in time.
1. Changes of blood pressure: hypertension is the main symptom of this disease, which is manifested as persistent or paroxysmal hypertension, and patients may also have palpitation, headache and excessive sweating triad during hypertensive attack.
Most of the patients may have postural hypotension such as unsteady standing, dizziness, lower blood pressure and so on when their body position changes, in addition, there are some patients with normal blood pressure.
2. Cardiac changes: catecholamine cardiomyopathy can occur, mostly accompanied by arrhythmia, patients may show heart enlargement, cardiac hypertrophy, heart failure or non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema.
3. Metabolic disorders: such as fever, emaciation and other hypermetabolic manifestations, as well as elevated blood glucose, blood free fatty acid increased sugar, fat metabolism disorders, as well as hypokalemia, hypercalcemia and other electrolyte metabolic disorders.
4. Others: such as abdominal mass, constipation, gallstones, painless hematuria, and so on.
If patients have the above symptoms and suspect the existence of pheochromocytoma, they should seek medical treatment in time, and complete relevant examinations under the guidance of doctors, such as measurement of blood and urine catecholamine and its metabolite levels, as well as ultrasound, CT scan, nuclear magnetic resonance, etc., so as to make a clear diagnosis of the disease and carry out the corresponding treatments under the guidance of doctors, and do not make blind judgment by yourself to avoid the delay of the disease.