Patients with end-stage renal disease are at increased risk of morbidity and mortality because of infection.
Operations are still associated with high morbidity and mortality because of specific postoperative complications (bile leaks, bilomas, deep bleeding, and deep suppurations) and deep abdominal complications (DAC).
In this regard, acute aortic dissection (AAD) requires special attention because it is the most catastrophic acute illness of the aorta; it has high morbidity and mortality because of potentially fatal complications.
At a time when we are making tremendous progress in reducing colorectal cancer mortality because of more screening through colonoscopy, it would be misguided to change course, based on the available evidence.
Dr. Fung's sentiments are similar to UNOS guidelines, which state that an H.I.V.-positive, asymptomatic patient "should not necessarily be excluded from candidacy for organ transplantation, but should be advised that he or she may be at increased risk of morbidity and mortality because of immunosuppressive therapy".
Circle hooks reduce turtle mortality because of their shape and size and the ways that these parameters interact with the size of turtles interacting with the fishery.
Exposure to extreme events has been hypothesized to affect subsequent mortality because of mortality selection and scarring effects of the event itself.
It's the leading cause of nosocomial infections in intensive care unit and remain responsible for a high morbidity and mortality because of the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial agent such us Acinetobacter baumannii (AB).
Decision-making in patients suspected of having acute appendicitis is still a diagnostic challenge worldwide despite the advances in appendiceal surgery and the decrease in mortality because of appendicitis [22].
Likewise, researchers (Sathiya Susuman 2010; Whiting et al. 2006) found that multiple births are always related to high child mortality rates, specifically neonate mortality, because of complications during delivery and most of multiple births are delivered with low birth weight.
In man, malignant melanoma accounts for only 4% of all dermatologic cancers but is responsible for 80% of skin cancer mortality because of its high metastatic rate (American cancer society, 2003).
