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Descriptor English: Multiple Organ Failure
Descriptor Spanish: Insuficiencia Multiorgánica
Descriptor insuficiencia multiorgánica
Entry term(s) SDMO
fallo multiorgánico
fallo multisistémico
fracaso multiorgánico
síndrome de disfunción multiorgánica
Scope note: Afección progresiva caracterizada normalmente por el fallo combinado de varios órganos tales como los pulmones, el hígado o los riñones, simultáneamente con algunos mecanismos de la coagulación, usualmente después de una lesión traumática o en el postoperatorio.
Descriptor Portuguese: Insuficiência de Múltiplos Órgãos
Descriptor French: Défaillance multiviscérale
Entry term(s): Failure, Multiple Organ
MODS
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Multiple Organ Failures
Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, Multiple
Organ Failure, Multiple
Tree number(s): C23.550.835.525
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009102
Scope note: A progressive condition usually characterized by combined failure of several organs such as the lungs, liver, kidney, along with some clotting mechanisms, usually postinjury or postoperative.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 83
History Note: 83
Related: Organ Dysfunction Scores MeSH
DeCS ID: 9294
Unique ID: D009102
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1983/01/01
Date of Entry: 1982/04/26
Revision Date: 2012/07/03
Multiple Organ Failure - Preferred
Concept UI M0014196
Scope note A progressive condition usually characterized by combined failure of several organs such as the lungs, liver, kidney, along with some clotting mechanisms, usually postinjury or postoperative.
Preferred term Multiple Organ Failure
Entry term(s) Failure, Multiple Organ
MODS
Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
Multiple Organ Failures
Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, Multiple
Organ Failure, Multiple



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