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Impaired glucose mobilization may be caused by adrenal insufficiency, severe liver disease, glycogen storage disease, severe infections, and starvation.
The World Health Organization, however, remained cautiously optimistic that the disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, could be kept in check.
The cases involved health care workers in two hospitals where the disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, had spread in the past.
Outborn infants had a higher incidence of chronic lung disease, severe retinopathy of prematurity, and intraventricular hemorrhage.
But more than anything, the episode illustrates how widespread fear of the infectious disease severe acute respiratory syndrome has become -- even in places far from the countries where it has spread in epidemic proportion, like China.
Critical care physicians should recognize early in the course of the disease severe cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocarditis, intoxication with cardiotoxic drugs, myocardial infarction and peripartum cardiomyopathy.
For example, children with sickle cell disease, chronic heart disease, severe asthma, as well as certain kidney and immune system problems should get the PPV23 version of the pneumococcal vaccine along with the one routinely given in infancy.
Non-syncytium-inducing (NSI) strains of HIV-1 prevail among most infected children, including pediatric patients who develop advanced disease, severe immune suppression, and die.
A control group was formed consisting of patients devoid of valvular disease, severe diastolic dysfunction (E/e′ ratio > 15), and reduced LV-EF <40%.
Exclusion criteria were: end-stage heart failure and liver disease, severe active cancer, age < 18 years, pre-existent hematological disorders, ongoing anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy.
