Secondary illness
The term secondary disease or also secondary disease describes in medicine in the sense of formal pathogenesis attributively the occurrence and development of a disease with all the factors involved, as a consequence of another disease or damage. In the case of secondary diseases, other basic diseases are therefore responsible for their manifestation. In contrast to the primary disease .
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
