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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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artery
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Often this blocks a pulmonary artery , causing serious illness or death.
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Hybridisation signals were also detected in the vascular endothelium of pulmonary arteries , especially those with severe arteriopathy.
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An echocardiogram showed dilatation of the pulmonary artery and tricuspid regurgitation.
disease
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Think of a medical student attending a course in the X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary diseases .
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Symptomatic coccidioidomycosis has a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from mild influenza-like illness to serious pulmonary disease to widespread dissemination.
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Patients had more consistent benefit from oxygen than hypoxaemic patients with such pulmonary disease in previous studies.
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There are wards for children with pulmonary disease and nervous disorders.
embolism
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They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later, she died.
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One patient in the control group died of pulmonary embolism .
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Doctors were forced to amputate her right leg, but Jennifer died when a blood clot caused a pulmonary embolism .
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He was admitted to the general medical service at Pinderfields General Hospital with a provisional diagnosis of pulmonary embolism .
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One patient died because of pulmonary embolism during the postoperative period.
hypertension
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Decisions regarding appropriate organ transplantation may depend on whether pulmonary hypertension is primary or secondary to portal hypertension.
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Primary pulmonary hypertension is extremely rare, afflicting about 1, 500 people in the United States.
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ET-1-like immunoreactivity and mRNA were also present in pulmonary vascular endothelial cells, particularly in specimens from patients with pulmonary hypertension .
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Most patients taking the pills do not develop pulmonary hypertension , he said.
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Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
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These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension .
tuberculosis
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First, our population was limited to patients with sputum-smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis .
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The attention of the council was drawn to an anomaly in the existing arrangements for patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis .
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One patient had recently finished a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis .
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These conditions include pulmonary tuberculosis , viral hepatitis, streptococcal septicaemia and various other diseases.
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Soon, however, he developed pulmonary tuberculosis and was invalided out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First, our population was limited to patients with sputum-smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Mortality is 3-4%, mainly owing to opportunistic infections and pulmonary emboli.
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Most patients taking the pills do not develop pulmonary hypertension, he said.
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Some clinicians and microbiologists continue to believe that P cepacia is a marker for, rather than the cause of, pulmonary deterioration.
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Some researchers worry, however, that some cases of pulmonary hypertension may have been overlooked.
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Symptomatic coccidioidomycosis has a wide clinical spectrum, ranging from mild influenza-like illness to serious pulmonary disease to widespread dissemination.
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These include the more firmly established association between the drugs and a potentially fatal lung disease, primary pulmonary hypertension.
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They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later, she died.