(1) The majority of screen-identified cases are slow-growing stage I adenocarcinomas, whose natural history permits lengthy exposure to competing lethal morbidities, which are particularly common among older smokers.
(2) Although volunteers were selected for participation in trials on the basis of their high risk for LC combined with their excellent health and ability to undergo resectional thoracic surgery, competing lethal morbidities were a far more frequent cause of death than LC.
Among the 305 TCO-ICU admissions, 2 patients presented with avoidable (iatrogenic) non-lethal morbidity and 8 patients died, all of them from non-avoidable causes.
Acute and chronic pancreatitis are common gastrointestinal diseases that are potentially lethal with considerable morbidity and reduced life expectancy.
These findings show that, in a dose dependent way, prophylactically administered CR6261 confers protection against lethal H5N1 challenge, prevents morbidity and viral dissemination and reduces pulmonary pathology.
Moreover, increased morbidity and lethal pancreatitis have been reported [ 9] after EPBD using a standard balloon catheter (8 mm).
Animals vaccinated with pH7HA are completely protected from H7N9 virus infection and any morbidity associated with lethal challenge.
In order to assess and improve avoidable severe maternal morbidity (SMM), whether lethal or not, a prospective analysis was undertaken in a tertiary care obstetric ICU (TCO-ICU) over a six year period.
It is associated with a high morbidity, is potentially lethal and often requires months, sometimes years, in the hospital and home on total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
A complete AV block is a potentially lethal condition associated with significant morbidity, and the majority of affected children require permanent pacemaker implantation [ 1- 3].
These PGLs cause important morbidity and are potentially lethal, due to the anatomic region of onset [ 32].
