Sentence examples for pathologic illness from inspiring English sources

Apoptosis is the principal means by which physiologic cell death occurs (Fig. 2), although abnormal apoptosis is associated with various pathologic illness states.

Support for the importance of this mechanism in ICUAW is the finding that selective MyHC degradation is a salient pathologic feature of critical illness myopathy [ 62].

It has also been shown that meeting a patient's estimated needs may result in inflammation, cytokine release, and oxidant production while short term restriction of nutrient intake may limit the pathologic processes that occur in critical illness and reduce organ dysfunction.

When hantavirus pulmonary syndrome was first identified in 1993 in the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States, pathologic examination was critical for characterizing the illness and contributed to discovery of the etiologic agent (22 ).

Any of the following clinical pathologic values during the first 5 days of illness were found to be >90% predictive of fatal outcome in a series of South African CCHF patients: leukocyte counts <10 x 10/L, platelet counts <20 x 10/L, AST >200 U/L, ALT >150 U/L, aPTT >60 s, and fibrinogen <110 mg/L (23).

Pathologic function of growth factor receptors leads to hematologic illness [ 6, 7], and a reduction in marrow G-CSF receptor expression is associated with myeloid maturation arrest and neutropenia following severe burn injury [ 8].

Kuru is also known as "laughing sickness" because of the pathologic bursts of laughter that patients would display.

The exclusion criteria were: open fractures; pathologic fractures; significant pre-existing degenerative joint disease; severe systemic illness (active cancer, chemotherapy, renal failure or other comorbidities that contraindicate surgery) or a neurological condition that would interfere with rehabilitation.

Postmortem studies often indicate a pathologic association of increased NRG1 expression or signaling with this illness.

Although DHOV was originally isolated from Hyalomma dromedarii ticks [73], intranasal infection of mice with this tick-borne virus resulted in the onset of a fulminant and uniformly fatal illness with many of the clinical, inflammatory, and pathologic features highly resembling to those observed in mice infected with H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (i.e., H5N1) [46], [46].

In addition pathologic changes of aging such as chronic diseases and psychological illness all play a role in the complex etiology of malnutrition in older people.