Some of the ways they test you to see if you have the syndrome include getting a MRI of the brain and spine, MRI of abdomen blood, a urinary catecholamine, or a fundoscopy, which is a test that lets doctors look at the back of your eyes. All of these can detect if you have it but sometimes it won’t show up on one test but it will on another test. There are three forms of treatment, but they can also make the tumor smaller. The three forms of treatment are surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. They all work, but sometimes if the tumor is too big then you can’t get surgery. Some people with VHL get anxiety and have high blood pressure from the tumor. Those are the way people test and treat
Some of the ways they test you to see if you have the syndrome include getting a MRI of the brain and spine, MRI of abdomen blood, a urinary catecholamine, or a fundoscopy, which is a test that lets doctors look at the back of your eyes. All of these can detect if you have it but sometimes it won’t show up on one test but it will on another test. There are three forms of treatment, but they can also make the tumor smaller. The three forms of treatment are surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy. They all work, but sometimes if the tumor is too big then you can’t get surgery. Some people with VHL get anxiety and have high blood pressure from the tumor. Those are the way people test and treat