Harvey J N, Dean H G, Lee M R
Postgrad Med J. 1984 May;60(703):364-5. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.60.703.364.
A patient with asthma and a phaeochromocytoma is described. At about the time she was first noted to be hypertensive her asthma resolved spontaneously but bronchospasm returned with some severity when the tumour was removed. The phaeochromocytoma was of the noradrenaline secreting variety. Possible mechanisms through which this catecholamine might have produced the observed alleviation of asthma are considered.
本文描述了一名患有哮喘和嗜铬细胞瘤的患者。大约在她首次被发现患有高血压时,她的哮喘自发缓解,但在肿瘤切除后,支气管痉挛又严重复发。该嗜铬细胞瘤属于分泌去甲肾上腺素的类型。文中探讨了这种儿茶酚胺可能导致观察到的哮喘缓解的潜在机制。