"They include serious, even fatal, complications (such as) major interventions from conditions that in truth would have been inconsequential."

It has the potential for rare but serious or occasionally fatal complications, so the decision to have liposuction should be well thought out.

However, those with blood vessel fragility have a high risk of fatal complications.

They said their review of medical journals showed that patients had suffered strokes, heart attacks and other serious, sometimes fatal, complications after taking the drug.

Women, she said, may underestimate the danger of "serious, even fatal, complications."

The exact role that all these risk factors play in the process leading to such fatal complications is still quite unclear.

Some anti-psychotic drugs, while they make patients easier to control, can cause serious, even fatal, complications, particularly in the elderly.

Others are secondary, designed to detect and treat conditions like high blood pressure that otherwise could lead to fatal complications.

They cancel the abortion because of potentially fatal complications to her.

Osteoporosis is also the main cause of hip fractures, which can lead to fatal complications.