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  2. End organ damage - Wikipedia

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    End organ damage is severe impairment of major body organs due to systemic disease. Commonly this is referred to in diabetes , high blood pressure , or states of low blood pressure or low blood volume. [ 1 ]

  3. End organ - Wikipedia

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    Neuromuscular junction (motor end-organ) Lamellar corpuscle (Pacinian corpuscle end-organ) The ultimately affected organ in a chain of events, such as a disease process (pathophysiology) or a drug's mechanism of action (sometimes called a target organ in this sense) End organ damage, disease of such organs Ambulatory blood pressure § Target ...

  4. Hypertensive emergency - Wikipedia

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    Cardiovascular system damage can include myocardial ischemia/infarction, acute left ventricular dysfunction, acute pulmonary edema, and aortic dissection. Other end-organ damage can include acute kidney failure or insufficiency, retinopathy, eclampsia, lung cancer, brain cancer, leukemia and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia. [citation needed]

  5. Hypertensive crisis - Wikipedia

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    Retinal papilledema and/or fundal bleeds and exudates are another sign of target organ damage. Chest pain may indicate heart muscle damage (which may progress to myocardial infarction ) or sometimes aortic dissection , the tearing of the inner wall of the aorta .

  6. Woman, 53, Has ‘Never Felt Better' After Undergoing Pig ...

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    "This could completely change the math of end-organ failure and what that means in terms of the likelihood of getting a transplant," Montgomery — who has had a heart transplant himself — told ...

  7. Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome - Wikipedia

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    At present, there is no drug or device that can reverse organ failure that has been judged by the health care team to be medically and/or surgically irreversible (organ function can recover, at least to a degree, in patients whose organs are very dysfunctional, where the patient has not died; [citation needed] and some organs, like the liver or ...

  8. Johnny Depp Speaks Out About Online Scammers Pretending to Be ...

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    Johnny Depp is warning about ongoing social media scams targeting his fan base.. The actor, 61, wished his followers on Instagram a "Happy New Year" on Monday, Jan. 6, while also alerting fans ...

  9. Septic shock - Wikipedia

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    Septic shock is a potentially fatal medical condition that occurs when sepsis, which is organ injury or damage in response to infection, leads to dangerously low blood pressure and abnormalities in cellular metabolism. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) defines septic shock as a subset of sepsis ...