heart failure
心力衰竭,心脏衰竭,心衰,心力衰退
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- : a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
- : Also called congestive heart failure. a condition in which the heart fails to pump adequate amounts of blood to the tissues, resulting in accumulation of blood returning to the heart from the veins, and often accompanied by distension of the ventricles, edema, and shortness of breath.
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My patient was a man in his mid-70s with heart failure who on his 16th night in the hospital spiked a fever.
It is known to occur more commonly in males than in females, ages 20 to 40, and can result in serious arrhythmias, loss of consciousness, heart failure, and even sudden cardiac death.
Children with the disease, known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, or progeria for short, often die of heart failure, heart attack or stroke as teenagers.
Similarly, research has shown weaker grip strength is a strong predictor of cardiac death, death from any cause, and hospital admission for heart failure.
Researchers linked sleep-disordered breathing to an increased risk of high blood pressure, heart failure, and stroke.
The questions going through my mind are: How on earth are there Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers in the heart of Paris?
But at the heart of this “Truther” conspiracy theory is the idea that “someone” wants to destroy Bill Cosby.
“I think it is important to say it is too soon to judge success or failure,” said Col. Steven Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.
She fills her characters up—strong women beating back against a sexist system—with so much heart.
In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.
That which is called nasality is caused by the failure of the tone to reach freely the anterior cavities of the nares.
The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.