This case report describes a patient with co-existing phaeochromocytoma and bronchial asthma. She had no asthmatic symptoms at the time of diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma; her asthma recurred after adrenalectomy. Despite concern about the use of a beta-blocker in a patient with asthma, pre-operative tachycardia was successfully treated with the beta-1-selective adrenoreceptor antagonist, metoprolol.
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