Ultimately, widespread fibrosis and destruction of lung tissue leads to severe pulmonary insufficiency.

Contraindications include both cardiac and pulmonary insufficiency, as well as hepatic disease.

Death may occur suddenly from acute pulmonary haemorrhage or after progressive pulmonary insufficiency resulting in chronic respiratory failure.

Not all specialty hospitals have ECMO, and ECMO is considered the therapy of last resort for pulmonary insufficiency.

The lungs are a radiosensitive organ, and radiation pneumonitis can occur leading to pulmonary insufficiency and death (100% after exposure to 50 gray of radiation), in a few months.

"Chairman, American College of Surgeons Postgraduate Course", "Thoracic Trauma and Pulmonary Insufficiency," Boston, Massachusetts.

In histopathology the condition is bronchiolitis obliterans, which clinically presents as progressive airflow obstruction, often involving dyspnea and coughing, and the patient eventually succumbs to pulmonary insufficiency or secondary acute infection.

Doctors at the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he had been treated several times over the last six months, said General Couto e Silva died of pulmonary insufficiency caused by lung cancer.

Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: liver disease, kidney disease, mental/mood problems (e.g., depression, panic disorder), lung problems (e.g., pulmonary insufficiency, sleep apnea), seizures, personal or family history of regular use/abuse of drugs/alcohol/other substances.