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General & SystemicSevere
End-Stage Organ Failure
Palliative Medicine · General & Systemic
Severe
Severity
Common in advanced age and among patients with long-standing chronic disease; a leading reason for palliative care referral worldwide
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Palliative Medicine
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Results from the cumulative
- 2irreversible damage of chronic diseases including long-standing heart failure
- 3chronic kidney disease
- 4cirrhosis from hepatitis or alcohol use
- 5or advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Risk factors include poorly controlled diabetes and hypertension
- 6longstanding substance use
- 7repeated organ injury
- 8and genetic predisposition to organ-specific disease. Once an organ's functional reserve is exhausted
- 9even minor additional stress such as infection can precipitate rapid
- 10irreversible decline.
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