TY - JOUR AU - Pinto, Sara AU - Ferreira, Raquel AU - Gonzaga, Anabela AU - Bastos, José Mesquita PY - 2019/04/16 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Acute myocardial infarction as the first manifestation of paraganglioma JF - Italian Journal of Medicine JA - Ital J Med VL - 13 IS - 2 SE - Case Reports DO - 10.4081/itjm.2019.1115 UR - https://www.italjmed.org/ijm/article/view/itjm.2019.1115 SP - 124-127 AB - <p>Paragangliomas (PGLs) are extra-adrenal neuroendocrine tumors, classified as sympathetic or parasympathetic according to their origin in the paraganglia of the autonomic nervous system. Sympathetic PGLs are mostly functional, presenting in a variable and non-specific way. We report a case of PGL, which was diagnosed further to an investigation of acute myocardial infarction in a postpartum woman, highlighting that the absence of typical symptoms may delay the diagnosis.</p> ER -