decompensation in English

noun
1
the failure of an organ (especially the liver or heart) to compensate for the functional overload resulting from disease.
The major contributing factor for heart failure decompensation was medication lapses.

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1. Co-infected patients with advanced cirrhosis receiving HAART may be at increased risk of hepatic decompensation and death

2. Early postoperative complications were transient stromal haze, sterile infiltrates, endothelium decompensation, delayed epithelial healing and infectious keratitis.

3. These complications were reversible, except for irreversible endothelial decompensation in one eye with Fuchs' corneal dystrophy.

4. Once the renal damage has reached a certain point, a minimum of additional stress leads to decompensation.

5. 26 Objective: To investigate the clinical relationship and diagnostic value of ascites and gallbladder wall thickening during hepatocirrhosis decompensation.

6. A relation between liver failure and interferon alfa seems probable in the patients who did not have hepatic decompensation before treatment. Sentencedict.com

7. Five diseases of pregnancy are analyzed which are at least partly characterized by impaired transplacental transport: a) abruptio placentae, resulting in acute respiratory insufficiency; b) intrauterine growth restriction combined with absent or reverse flow in the umbilical arteries, resulting in severe chronic nutritional insufficiency, with the risk of acute respiratory decompensation; c) intrauterine growth restriction combined with preserved flow in the umbilical arteries, resulting in chronic nutritional insufficiency, d) premature delivery following maturitas praecox of the placenta, in a subset of cases complicated by chronic nutritional insufficiency; and e) postterm delivery following persistent immaturity of the placenta, bearing the risk of acute respiratory decompensation.