Sentence examples for marker of failure from inspiring English sources

The cerebroplacental ratio has been proposed as a marker of failure to reach growth potential near term.

Perhaps because of that good fortune, both family and friends sometimes ask me, "why do you work at a VA?" in an almost accusatory tone -- as if working for the VA was marker of failure or incompetence.

Furthermore, it has recently been shown that nephrotoxicity might be a marker of failure of vancomycin treatment [ 3].

However, a persistently low PaO2/FiO2 is associated with a poor outcome and may be a marker of failure to respond to conventional therapy [ 5, 6].

On the contrary, others demonstrated that, besides gastroesophageal reflux, also preoperative intubation, late operation (older than 2 weeks), low birth weight, and diagnosis of a syndrome were significant predictive markers of failure of TLA and necessity of a tracheotomy [ 67, 70].

The statistical analyses allowed us to identify the best score of organ failures, the best marker of liver failure, and the most relevant organ replacement therapy to predict in-ICU mortality.

Since the level of BNP increases in heart failure, elevated plasma BNP concentration is used as a marker of heart failure.

Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), an established marker of heart failure, has also been shown to predict cardiac events including symptomatic heart failure, arrhythmias and acute coronary syndrome in patients receiving anthracycline-based chemotherapy [ 38].

Nevertheless, when energy failure becomes relevant, lactate measurement over time may be used as a metabolic marker of energy failure.

Based on the Langendorff data that showed cardiac sympathetic dominance in offspring of obese dams (a pre-eminent marker of heart failure) with age (31), these offspring may be on the pathway to premature heart failure.

The high levels of PCBs found in the females indicates they are not reproducing, he said: "It is a chemical marker of reproductive failure".