Primary disease
In medicine, the term primary disease or also primary disease describes in terms of formal pathogenesis attributively the occurrence and development of a disease with all the factors involved, originating from the affected organ , tissue . Thus, a primary disease is one that arises directly from the cause of the disease and is not the result of another noxious agent (secondary, tertiary). In contrast to this is the secondary disease .
The attribute “primary” (meanings: first, primarily, first available, initially, originally) is placed in front of the actual name of the disease in common medical parlance .
The term idiopathy is often associated with primary illness . The "primary illness" is to be distinguished from the concept of the basic illness .
example
Primary hyperaldosteronism or Conn syndrome is a case described by Jerome W. Conn which is due to an adenoma of the adrenal cortex with autonomous aldosterone production. The disease has its cause in the tissues of the corresponding organ, the adrenal cortex. A secondary hyperaldosteronism is a form of hyperaldosteronism , which does not by a disorder of the adrenal gland is caused itself. Secondary hyperaldosteronism is often based on a pathologically increased stimulation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) in the context of other underlying diseases.
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Sandritter, G. Beneke: Allgemeine Pathologie. Textbook for students and doctors. FK Schattauer, Stuttgart / New York 1981, ISBN 3-7945-0771-1 , p. 10
