obstructiveness

Examples of obstructive

obstructive
Echocardiography can usually identify the obstructive lesion in sufficient detail before surgical repair.
According to the expectations above, these organizations are assumed to have exerted obstructive childcare politics.
Clinical audit indicators of outcome following admission to hospital with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Since postmodern texts are meant to be obstructive to any dominant discourse, they do not even favour a (potentially hegemonic) anti-colonialist position.
It may also provide other clues to a cause of breathlessness, such as the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or consolidation.
The most commonly mentioned conditions were: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ischaemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, cancer; cerebrovascular disease, and, recurrent chest infections.
The needs of patients dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the community.
This case is illustrative, as previous reports have described steroid-induced hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy as being transient and benign.
As obstructive undergrowth, the jungle represented an impediment to progress; as an environment for hostile predators it signified the dread characteristics of man's unenlightened state.
Deep hypothermic arrest is used in very small infants where arterial and venous cannulas would cause significant obstructive of the operative field.
Increasingly, we are debulking the coronary sinus which we feel may be partially obstructive to the mitral valve.
Physical and psychological correlates of functioning in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The obstructive lesions are encountered more frequently with the recurrences, or later in the chronic phase.
Early diagnosis and surgical repair is essential to prevent irreversible pulmonary vascular obstructive disease.
The obstructive effect of the tumour with resultant nausea, vomiting, anorexia and weight loss may be managed by surgical procedures to bypass the obstruction.
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