We are paying a heavy price for our haste to invade Iraq without having a full appreciation of the fatal consequences and painful complications of our actions.

A vaso-occlusive crisis is a common painful complication of sickle cell anemia in adolescents and adults.

It is also used for "dry socket," a painful complication of tooth extraction.

"That girl screamed and screamed, and up till today I still hear it," she says, speaking of a case with a victim who suffered painful complications.

For many years, Marxow labored under intense personal suffering, due to chronic painful complications of his amputation.

She complained of painful complications early in the pregnancy and in early August egested several pieces of flesh, one "as big as my arm".

What people don't realize is that quite often, especially in women, a heart attack is followed by chronic, painful complications and a suffocating death.

Extraction of teeth which are involved in pericoronitis carries a higher risk of dry socket, a painful complication which results in delayed healing.

He died in 1954 following long and painful complications from surgery carried out more than a year previously in December 1952.

The traumatic amputations are often accompanied by painful complications.