0 a sign that someone should not continue with a particular medicine or treatment because it is or might be harmful --
Hevated pulmonary vascularresistancemay be contraindication for corrective surgery in congenital heart disease.
A small area of aneurysm combined with a not too large defect may not be a contraindication.
Who may have medical contraindications to surgery or may simply wish to delay surgery.
The patient did not meet criteria for dementia and there were no other absolute contraindications to surgery.
Similarly, previous chest wall irradiation and/or postmastectomy radiotherapy are considered by many, a relative contraindication for implant-based breast reconstruction.
Autologous peripheral blood stem-cell transplantation is an unlikely option in older patients, given that they often have marked multisystem involvement which represents a contraindication.
If there was any doubt about the degree of risk or any possibility of a contraindication the woman was referred to the doctor on duty.
The ethical distinction between risk-based rationales and need-based rationales emerges most clearly in their differing views of tractable contraindications.
