Exertional Angina in a Young Woman Caused by Large Cardiac Paraganglioma

David Lin, MD; Joao Cavalcante, MD; Victor Cheng, MD; John Lesser, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Feb 2024)

Exertional Angina in a Young Woman Caused by Large Cardiac Paraganglioma

David Lin, MD,
Joao Cavalcante, MD,
Victor Cheng, MD,
John Lesser, MD

Affiliations

David Lin, MD: Address for correspondence: Dr David Lin, Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, 800 East 28th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, USA.; Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Part of Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Joao Cavalcante, MD: Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Part of Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Victor Cheng, MD: Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Part of Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
John Lesser, MD: Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Part of Allina Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 29, no. 4
p. 102209

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Coronary ischemia is uncommon in patients in their third decade of life. We present a 21-year-old woman with classic exertional angina secondary to a large cardiac paraganglioma. Cardiac paragangliomas are rare extra-adrenal neuroendocrine tumors that arise from chromaffin cells. Cardiac symptoms can be related to catecholamine excess or anatomical compression.

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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