Sentence examples for dysfunction or failure from inspiring English sources

'Organ dysfunction' subsumes cardiac insufficiency as well as hepatic and renal dysfunction or failure.

2) Critically ill patients include all patients presenting with dysfunction or failure or one or more vital organs or systems.

The immune system is an essential organ in higher life forms, and its dysfunction or "failure" may be life-threatening.

Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is defined as a persistent intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) of more than 20 mmHg accompanied by new organ dysfunction or failure.

Abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) occurs when a sustained IAP > 20 is found when associated with new organ dysfunction or failure [10].

Most of our respondents decide to decompress the abdomen based on the presence of organ dysfunction or failure in combination with IAH (Figure 3).

It defined ACS as the presence of sustained IAP of 20 mmHg or greater (with or without an abdominal perfusion pressure (APP) of < 60 mmHg) that is associated with new organ dysfunction or failure.

Only 46.8% of pediatric HCP in a survey understood the development of new organ dysfunction or failure associated with an elevation in IAP constituted the definition of ACS [16].

The positive relations of the hGR to the inflammatory biomarkers further support this, along with the simultaneous enhanced ACTH and prolactin, and the organ dysfunction or failure development, when the cell defending itself represses its bioenergetics.

The lack of any signs of an improvement in liver function at or after D3, in patients presenting with other organ dysfunctions or failure, means that liver transplantation should be envisaged.

The following key words were searched: atrial natriuretic peptide or carperitide, B-type (or brain) natriuretic peptide or nesiritide, acute kidney injury or acute renal failure, left ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, cardiac surgery or cardiovascular surgery.