[robbiep]

I imagine we have received the crib notes of this story.

He was able to improve his condition by being on a permenant norad infusion, which is something we only do in hospitals to critically ill patients who are having a hard time keeping their blood pressure in any normal range. Generally, norad is a shorter acting version of adrenaline that acts on a slightly different hierarchy of the same receptors. If it was as simple as ‘too much’ adrenaline, I suspect some benefit effect would have been seen by beta blockers. Maybe there is, maybe that’s one of the 9 medications he takes every day.

Worth noting also that a condition that dumps way too much adrenaline into the body, phaeochromocytoma, is often an incidental finding; so this obviously presents differently despite having (simplistically, from the article) the same type of mechanism.

We don’t have all the information we need to make inferences from this particular article