RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Increased urinary catecholamines in an infant with the diencephalic syndrome.
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 511
OP 513
DO 10.1136/adc.53.6.511
VO 53
IS 6
A1 T Karpathios
A1 P Nicolaidou
A1 A Fretzagias
A1 S Haidas
A1 T Thomaidis
YR 1978
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/53/6/511.abstract
AB In an infant of 15 months with the diencephalic syndrome, urinary excretion of norepinephrine was moderately raised and epinephrine greatly so. It is suggested that catecholamine secretion may be due to sympathetic stimulation at the level of the diencephalon, by a space-occupying lesion pressing on the thalamohypothalamic pathway. Some of the symptoms of the diencephalic syndrome such as euphoria, irritability, skin pallor, and hypertension may be the result of catecholamine secretion.