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episodic symptoms of excessive adrenergic agonism(palpitations, headaches, diaphoresis and anxiety) and has high urine metanephrine levels. This is consistent with a diagnosis of pheochromocytoma. Pheochromocytomas secrete hormones such as epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine, which activate the sympathetic nervous system and may produce diaphoresis, palpitations, anxiety, hunger, faintness, weakness, and numbness around the mouth.

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