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What does decompensate mean?

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  1. (medicine) To deteriorate in function due to an inability to invoke normal defensive mechanisms that compensate for ailments and other stresses.
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Some begin to lose their grasp on their sanity and badly decompensate.
Painful ischemic cardiopathy with frequent seizures, the indolent with severe disorders of rhythm and leadership valvulopatiile decompensate, decompensatã heart failure, patients with potential emboligen.
Since then she has been further diagnosed with chronic liver disease, decompensate portal hypertension, and an umbilical hernia.
And although many patients will recover rapidly while receiving NPPV, some will continue to decompensate and need to be intubated and mechanically ventilated.
Avoid patients with comorbid conditions such as asthma, anxiety, obesity, or heart disease which might decompensate in the office.

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