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Insufficiency
(redirected from Respiratory insufficiency)

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INSUFFICIENCY. What is not competent; not enough.
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a 6-month-old boy, was admitted to an intensive care unit because of respiratory insufficiency.
Disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guerin infection and immunodeficiency by Liberek, Anna / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The cause of the woman's death was later listed as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and respiratory insufficiency, with contributing factors of diabetes and congestive heart failure.
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The final reported case of pulmonary toxicity associated with thalidomide described a patient with respiratory insufficiency and an interstial pattern on chest x-ray; no other studies were reported in this patient.
Thalidomide-induced organizing pneumonia by Mysliwiec, Vincent / Southern Medical Journal
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