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insufficiency

noun absence, dearth, deficiency, deficit, depletion, emptiness, exhaustion, exiguity, falling short, fewness, inadequacy, incompetence, incompleteness, inopia, lack, need, not enough, paucity, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, short fall, short measure, short supply, shortage, shortcoming, sparseness, stint, too few, want
Associated concepts: insufficiency of evidence, insufficiency of law to support a verdict

INSUFFICIENCY. What is not competent; not enough.

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11) In fact, acute aortic insufficiency is now the most common cause of death in patients with infectious endocarditis.

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Follow-up results of balloon aortic valvuloplasty in children with special reference to causes of late aortic insufficiency.

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Late complications of surgery include re-dissection, formation and expansion of an aneurysm, aortic insufficiency, and organ ischemia.

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During that admission a diastolic murmur was note& and an echocardiogram showed severe aortic insufficiency with a thickened aortic valve.

Q fever endocarditis in HIV-infected patient

The primary endpoint of the study is a composite of the following ten Major Adverse Events at 30 days or discharge: death, myocardial infarction, stroke, repeat revascularization (PCI/CABG), need for any cardiovascular operation, acute renal dysfunction, increase in aortic insufficiency, severe hypotension, CPR or arrhythmia requiring Trt, failure to adequately reopen the vessel.

Abiomed Announces New PROTECT II Data at Society for Cardiovascular Angiography Interventions 2011 Scientific Sessions

All patients had moderate or severe pulmonary arterial hypertension; besides, there were 28 cases of ventricular septal defect, 16 cases of atrial septal defect, eight cases of aortic insufficiency, four cases of mitral stenosis and insufficiency and four cases of infectious endocarditis.

Pulmonary artery closure in combination with patch technique for treating congenital heart disease combined with large patent ductus arteriosus: A clinical study of 9 cases

9 Secondary aortic insufficiency, is associated with prolapse of aortic valve cusps.

Ventricular Septal defect and associated complications

Late complications of surgery include redissection, formation and expansion of an aneurysm, aortic insufficiency, and organ ischemia.