Effect of surgical treatment on myocardial strain in patients with pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: a mini-review and meta-analysis.

This meta-analysis adds a new piece of evidence, suggesting that surgical treatment of patients with pheochromocytoma impacts favorably on LV geometry and LV mechanics, and, more importantly, the assessment of LV changes in this setting can no longer rely on conventional echocardiographic parameters such as ejection fraction.