Table 1 Patient characteristics
Total number of patients | 17 |
|---|---|
Gender (male/female) | 9/8 |
Average age at diagnosis (years, range) | 41 (20–62) |
Means of diagnosis (biochemical/imaging/unknown) | 5/11/1 |
Incidental Imaging finding (yes/no) | 8/9 |
Presence of cardiovascular crisis (# patients) | 6 |
Hypertension (yes/no/unknown) | 9/8/0 |
Tachycardia, HR > 100 (yes/no/unknown) | 4/5/5 |
Both HTN & Tachycardia (yes/no/unknown) | 2/10/5 |
Number antihypertensive medications (average, range) | 1 (0–4) |
Elevated plasma or urine catecholamines or metanephrines (yes/no/unknown) | 16/0/1 |
Level of metanephrine elevation (times upper limit of normal). (mean/median/range) | |
UM UNM PM PNM | 12.6/ 5.2/ (0.5–19.0) 4.6/ 2.7/ (0.6–3.5) 6.7/ 3.6/ (0.7–16.8) 3.2/ 2.0/ (1.4–10.2) |
Elevations in both metanephrines & normetanephrines (yes/no/unknown) | 10/1/6 |
MIBG scan (pos/neg/not done) | 9/0/8 |