liver failure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofliverandfailure
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liver
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈlɪv.ər/us/ˈlɪv.ɚ/
a large organ in the body that cleans the blood and produces bile, or this organ from an animal used ...
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failure
noun
uk/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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(Definition ofliverandfailurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The cause of death wasliverfailurein the remaining patients.
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The causes of death were bleeding,liverfailureor a combination of these two conditions in 58% patients, while 11% died of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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There is a 10-year-old child with fulminantliverfailurewho, without a liver transplant, will soon die.
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One good thing about this situation, different from one where the patient suffered from, for example, imminentliverfailure, is that there is time.
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The combination of viral hepatitis and excessive alcohol use significantly increases the risk ofliverfailure.
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Haemolysis can occur in association with systemic disease such as renal andliverfailurein which there is an acquired red cell membrane disorder.
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Fetal hydrops, generalized oedema and ascites may also be present and can suggest anaemia as well asliverfailureand infection of the bone-marrow.
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A heavy consumption of alcohol reduces resistance to infection by a variety of factors including damage to the immune system,liverfailure, ascites, peripheral oedema and inadequate nutrition.
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Indeed, people are often not responsible for developing lung cancer, for kidney orliverfailure, for being blind, for suffering from a very weak heart, in short, for needing organs.
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As the above discussion makes clear, it also depends on how far along each patient is in the sequence of medical events that constitutes an episode ofliverfailure.
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It should not be used in patients with renal impairment (serum creatinine 150 umoi/l) or with severe heart andliverfailuredue to the risk of lactic acidosis.
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Others have been caused by brain damage linked to excessive water consumption,liverfailureand heart failure.
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They can increase the chance ofliverfailure, heart attack, miscarriage and stillbirth.
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They are cumulative in effect and cause progressiveliverfailure.
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Specialist units for treatingliverfailureare provided under the supra-regional arrangements.
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Symptomatic illness andliverfailurecould be prevented in many people.
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A proportion of those with liver disease will go on to developliverfailureor liver cancer.
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Between 1988 and 1994, more than 550 people suffering from haemophilia died fromliverfailure, and in 1994 alone, 14 people died in those circumstances.
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