eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | pheochromocytoma |
| Comorbidity | C0003486|aortic aneurysm |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23919200 | Possible etiological factors leading to the coexistence of aortic aneurysm with pheochromocytoma are: (i) persistent exposure to high catecholamines leads to damage and subsequent weakening of vascular wall, (ii) associated cigarette smoking, increasing age, hypertension and atherosclerosis, (iii) coexistence of vasculitis like takayasu's disease, giant cell arteritis and cystic medial necrosis due to marfan syndrome and ehlers danlos syndrome and (iv) chance association. |
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