PRESIDENT AND PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
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pheochromocytoma; an example of features of the clinical course; US President Dwight David Eisenhower.Abstract
Purpose: to investigate and analyze the features of the clinical course and postmortem diagnosis of pheochro- mocytoma in the 34th President of the United States Dwight David Eisenhower (Dwight David Eisenhower). Materials and methods: monographs, fragments of periodicals, references, and reports processed using bib- liosemantic, descriptive, and historical data processing methods. Results. There is a huge amount of information about the president's various illnesses. He had serious health problems in the form of severe cardiovascular disorders. There are data that he suffered 7 myocardial infarctions during his life. In addition to cardiac and cerebrovascular pathologies, D. Eisenhower had a number of somatic dis- eases that were treated surgically: in particular, calculous chlecystitis, Crohn's disease with intestinal obstruction, hypertrophy of the prostate gland. During the autopsy, doctors and pathologists, in addition to changes in the body caused by existing diseases, discovered a tumor in the left adrenal gland that had not been diagnosed during life – a pheochromocytoma with a diameter of 15 mm. Conclusions. Modern knowledge about this tumor, the peculiarities of its clinical course give reason to believe that it was the cause of progressive cardiovascular and cerebrovascular pathologies that led to the end of life.
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