Impairing

Lack of sleep may be impairing your judgment.

Surgeons performed the multi-organ transplant because of a disease that affects the 15-month-old girl's digestive system, impairing her ability to absorb nutrients from food. They say the rare condition known as microvillous inclusion disease is fatal, if not treated.

Dr. Peiris explained that the steroids were used after tests revealed it was not mucus obstructing patients' breathing. Instead it was the body's immune response that caused lung tissue to swell, impairing its ability to absorb oxygen.

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