"sequelae" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a plural noun meaning the consequences of a disease or event, usually referring to long-term complications. Example sentence: A common complication of untreated diabetes is vision loss, one of the sequelae of the disease.
So-called mandated newborn screening was initiated in many societies in the latter quarter of the 20th century in an effort to prevent the drastic and often irreversible damage associated with a small number of relatively common genetic disorders whose sequelae can be either prevented or significantly relieved by early detection and intervention.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one or two out of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic sequelae including blindness, seizures and encephalitis.
These arterial injuries can be severe, producing adverse neurological sequelae and even death (including 31% of patients in this series).
This assertion is not borne out by the literature: the vast majority of women tolerate abortion without psychiatric sequelae", a conclusion echoed in systematic reviews.
Not only the rapes but all the sequelae: the agony, the bitterness, the self-recrimination, the asco, the desperate need to keep it hidden and silent.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists subsequently acknowledged, in a 2006 practice advisory, that accidental intraoperative awareness, while rare, might be followed by "significant psychological sequelae … and affected patients may remain severely disabled for extended periods of time".
It is this myopic concentration on balancing the books, with no thought of long-term expense, that leads to them scrimping on basics, such as detergent, while eventually frittering millions away on the sequelae of the ensuing poor hygiene, in the form of expensive antibiotics.
They are at risk of different head injuries, with different, sometimes more acute, sequelae.
"While there's a growing recognition of the problems, of the consequences and sequelae of those problems by pediatricians, managed care isn't financing treatment," said Katherine Sundstrom, a pediatric psychiatrist in Brooklyn.
Such harms might include various birth defects, the sequelae of premature birth, social stigma, or the psychological damage associated with being a clone or an object of commercial transaction between contracting parents and surrogates (President's Council 2002).
Kate Lindemann (2001) and Ann Davis (2005) both write about the effects that experiencing the sequelae of head injuries had on their beliefs about cognition.
