BLADDER PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA IN PREGNANCY WITHOUT HYPERTENSION - A CASE-REPORT

A 33-year-old nullipara presented at 20 weeks' gestation with episodes of nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, which were controlled with a miodarone. No hypertension was recorded except once after an attack of ventricular tachycardia. Pheochromocytoma teas suspected when repeat 24-hour urine catecholamine levels were markedly elevated. Neither com puted tomography nor postpartum metaiodobenzylguanidine scan could loc ate the tumor. Finally it was identified in the bladder by ultrasound after selective venous sampling localized it to the pelvis. It was exc ised four months postpartum.