Lisa Argilla, a vet at Wellington Zoo, said they suspected it had suffered multiple organ failure.
Less than five per cent of patients with his degree of organ failure make it home.
Best was also an alcoholic who died in 2005 aged 59, after suffering multiple organ failure.
Shock, overwhelming infections and multi-organ failure are terminal conditions that are commonly seen in intensive care.
"Her vital signs are deteriorating with signs of severe organ failure, " hospital official Kelvin Loh said.
Henson separated from her husband in 1986, four years before his death from infection-induced organ failure aged 53.
The sheer virulence of the infection, which can cause multi-organ failure, means it must be regarded a potent threat.
He witnessed fellow volunteers collapse in agony as they suffered multiple organ failure.
Eventually, EB proves fatal, either through organ failure, secondary skin cancer or infection.
"The pain had to be extreme, equivalent to serious physical injury or organ failure, " the memo goes on to say.
Lisa Argilla, the veterinary science manager at the zoo, said Friday that they suspect the penguin suffered multiple organ failure.
Hospital chief executive Kelvin Loh said she had suffered severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain.
Rick Miller, a spokesman for the British Dietetic Association, warned that taking too much iron could result in major organ failure.
All three died after suffering severe respiratory symptoms, including acute respiratory distress syndrome and eventually septic shock and multiple organ failure.
Most children who are born with my disease, toxoplasmosis, have profound side-effects that can include organ failure, blindness, and intellectual disabilities.
Later that year, he endorsed a Justice Department memo narrowly defining torture as interrogation that causes pain equivalent to organ failure or death.
He was taken to hospital accompanied by police but died eight days later from multiple organ failure as a result of the severe burns.
Belfast-born Best, a football legend for Northern Ireland and Manchester United, died in November 2005 of multiple organ failure after a long battle against alcoholism.
She said that spider bites do not lead to organ failure.
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The chemical can cause kidney ailments and organ failure in humans.
Most prominently, teenager Jesse Gelsinger died from multiple organ failure a few days after receiving a massive dose of virus-based gene therapy in a trial at the University of Pennsylvania.
In the next two years Novartis will unleash a flood of new drugs for an array of other deadly or debilitating illnesses asthma, diabetes, schizophrenia, organ failure, arthritis, skin disorders and eye disease.
You know, are they basing their definition of torture to that now infamous memo to Alberto Gonzales in 2002 where they tried to redefine torture as death or major organ failure?
Radiation can ablate necessary cells, leading to organ failure.
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Jarque's death comes two years after that of Sevilla and Spain defender Antonio Puerta, who suffered multiple organ failure in hospital, three days after a cardiac arrest during a league match against Getafe.
All ended up seriously ill, with multiple organ failure, soon after being injected with the drug at a special testing unit at Northwick Park Hospital in London, run by a company called Parexel.
There was a young woman with multiple organ failure from a devastating case of pneumonia, a man in his mid-sixties with a ruptured colon that had caused a rampaging infection and a heart attack.
"As the penguin arrived nearly 3kg (6.6lb) underweight, it had absolutely no reserves and subsequently we suspect that this led to multiple organ failure, following the kidney failure diagnosed on its arrival, " Ms Argilla said.
Many believe that if a way can be found to grow and harvest these cells, they can be used as replacement tissue to combat a variety of human diseases and ailments, from diabetes to organ failure.
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