Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pheochromocytoma is a rare endocrinopathy, most often benign. Early and multidisciplinary management of this disease allows to avoid its dreadful complications.

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical and biological characteristics of patients with pheochromocytoma.

Patients and Methods: Retro-prospective descriptive study, including patients hospitalized in the Endocrinology Department of CHU Ibn Rochd of Casablanca from 1996 to 2022. Data analysis was done by SPSS software.

Results: The mean age was 47.3 years, the sex ratio was 1.07. The main symptom was hypertension followed by Menard’s triad. Cardiac and/or renal complications were found in 29% of patients. The location of the tumor was adrenal in the majority of cases (94%). The management was essentially surgical preceded by a medical preparation. A delay in diagnosis with an incidental finding was found in 28%. The anatomo-pathology was benign in the majority of cases with 7 cases of malignant pheochromocytoma. Death was recorded in 7 patients.

Conclusion: Pheochromocytoma is a rare and often benign endocrinopathy. Our work shows the delay of the diagnosis at the stage of complications of this pathology.