His work also reduced the likelihood of developing a life-threatening complication called graft-versus-host disease.

Berberine, 300 mg three times a day orally, also seems to inhibit complication of abdominal or pelvic radiation, called radiation-induced acute intestinal symptoms.

Most doctors in the department felt that she had died from a potentially avoidable complication called aspiration, where blood or stomach contents are inadvertently allowed to enter the lungs.

She suffered a complication, called cauda equina syndrome.

The complication, called myelodysplasia, can also lead to acute leukemia, a cancer of the blood.

For more than two decades, the major medical journals have been filled with reports of the high incidence and devastating complications of a heart condition called mitral valve prolapse.

Between 0.5 and 2% of patients taking clozapine may develop a life-threatening complication called agranulocytosis, which is a significant drop in a type of white blood cell.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne infection that causes a severe flu-like illness, and sometimes a potentially lethal complication called dengue haemorrhagic fever.

E. coli O157:H7 disease sometimes leads to a serious complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which can cause kidney failure.