Questions tagged [complications]
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How well can we test for deadly reactions to a drug, like anesthetics for an operation? [closed]
Since I still hear about people dying from adverse effects of anesthesia, prescription drugs, and clinical trials, we obviously don't have a perfect ex vivo test for adverse reactions to arbitrary ...
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Complications and risks for combining multiple procedures [closed]
How do the risks and potential complications change when multiple procedures are performed at the same time? For example both wisdom tooth extraction and LASIK eye surgery have relatively minor risks ...
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What could cause a stroke soon after a lung transplant? Is it even known?
Recently a youtuber died of a thrombotic stroke a week after a lung transplant operation. Skimming over abstracts on Pubmed, it appears that strokes and more generally thrombosis is a frequent ...
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Do comorbidities that have an important negative impact for COVID-19 patients are generally affecting patients with viral infections?
I have often seen in media about the comorbidities that make things worse for a COVID-19 patient. The most often mentioned are hypertension and diabetes as also mentioned in this article:
From what ...
