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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2023

Case report: Catecholamine cardiomyopathy in children with neuroblastoma.

Xiaoyan Xu, Meiqi Liu, Yanmin Zhang, Jie Wang, Xi Lei, Juanli Wang, Yafei Zhou, Tao Wang

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Xiaoyan XuDepartment of Cardiology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Meiqi LiuDepartment of Cardiology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Yanmin ZhangDepartment of Cardiology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Jie WangInstitute of Children's Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Xi LeiDepartment of Cardiology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Juanli WangDepartment of Cardiology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Yafei ZhouNational Regional Children's Medical Center (Northwest), Key Laboratory of Precision Medicine to Pediatric Diseases of Shaanxi Province, Xi'an Key Laboratory of Children's Health and Diseases, Shaanxi Institute for Pediatric Diseases, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Tao WangDepartment of Cardiology, Xi'an Children's Hospital, Affiliated Children's Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.

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Abstract

Introduction: Many endocrine diseases, such as neuroblastoma (NB), can be linked with acquired cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Neuroblastoma's cardiovascular manifestations are typically hypertension, electrocardiogram (ECG) changes, and conduction disturbances. Case Presentation: A 5-year-old 8-month-old girl was admitted to the hospital with ventricular hypertrophy and hypertension (HT) and heart failure. She had no previous history of HT. On color doppler echocardiography, the left atrium and left ventricle were enlarged. The left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) was as low as 40%, and the ventricular septum and left ventricular free wall were thickened. The internal diameters of both coronary arteries were widened. Abdominal computed tomography scan (CT) demonstrated an 8.7 cm × 7.1 cm × 9.5 cm tumor behind the left peritoneum. In urine catecholamines analysis, free-norepinephrine (f-NE), free-dopamine (f-DA), free-normetanephrine (f-NMN), free-3-methoxytyramine (f-3MT), vanillylmandelic acid (VMA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) levels were all greater than the normal range for 24 h except free-metanephrine (f-MN) and free-epinephrine (f-E). Based on these findings, we diagnosed her as NB complicated by catecholamine cardiomyopathy manifested by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Oral metoprolol, spironolactone, captopril and amlodipine furosemide, and intravenously injected sodium nitroprusside and phentolamine were employed for treating HT. After the tumor resection, the blood pressure (BP) and urinary catecholamine levels were all restored. After a follow-up of 7 months, echocardiography indicated normalization of ventricular hypertrophy and function. Conclusion: This is a rare report showing catecholamine cardiomyopathy in NB children. Tumor resection leads to a return to normal of the catecholamine cardiomyopathy manifested as HCM.

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catecholamine cardiomyopathychildrenhypertensionhypertrophic cardiomyopathyneuroblastoma

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