How to Use dialysis in a Sentence

dialysis

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  • Wilson ended up back on dialysis after several years of good health.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But the disease left her with permanent kidney failure, dependent on dialysis for the rest of her life.
    — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Many have multiple blood clots, and some require dialysis to support faltering kidneys.
    — Kelly Servick, Science | AAAS, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Medicare costs for dialysis dwarf the costs of making donation less expensive for generous living donors.
    — Greg Segal, STAT, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Nor did either child have a chronic disease that would require rounds of blood transfusions or routine kidney dialysis, which could possibly expose them to blood-borne illnesses.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • As people languish on transplant waiting lists, Medicare now spends $36 billion each year on dialysis, which acts like an external kidney.
    — Greg Segal, STAT, 3 Apr. 2021
  • The list of conditions includes sickle cell disease, end-stage renal disease on dialysis, active cancer treatment and solid organ transplant.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The administration will partner with dialysis centers to provide vaccinations to patients and staff.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Studies show Black patients receive fewer referrals for life-saving treatments, such as heart catherization for heart disease, treating pain or kidney dialysis.
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The surgery was needed to insert a catheter in his neck for dialysis.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The 60-year-old has also been on dialysis for six years.
    — Myah Taylor, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Okojie said some players went to the ICU and that some were on dialysis.
    — Dallas News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Her 48-year-old patient had skipped the dialysis that kept him alive.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Hugh was on dialysis and badly in need of a transplant.
    — Usa Today Network Ventures Staff, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2021
  • His nights at the club were replaced with four-hour-long days of dialysis treatments three times per week.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The woman had come to Centerpoint to get a new port for her dialysis.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 June 2024
  • His wife cheered him on and helped him while on dialysis, along with his sister and daughters.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 July 2022
  • John was on dialysis at the time, and would receive treatment three times a week for at least three hours at a time, the GoFundMe page says.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The girl was one of five children in the dialysis department at the moment of the attack on July 8.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 26 July 2024
  • Gaither goes for dialysis at least three times a week on Brentwood Road in northeast D.C.
    — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Josh’s right lung collapsed, his kidneys failed and he was put on dialysis.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Three-times-a-week dialysis treatments can only sustain the 53-year-old for so long.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Both needed dialysis to clear the fluid that was clogging their lungs.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2021
  • The Wales resident started dialysis and was put on a transplant list, but by June 2021, there still wasn't a match.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
  • In August 2020 Collins had to start emergency dialysis three days a week for four hours.
    — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2021
  • People who need a heart are on death's door where people who need a kidney have been kept alive via dialysis.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The parent of a Heath player who was hospitalized said that some players went to the ICU and that some were on dialysis.
    — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
  • The dialysis industry had to spend more than $80 million to defeat it.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Murray: And these people come to you for the dialysis process on a regular basis.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 15 June 2023
  • Baxter also makes specialty fluids, such as peritoneal dialysis fluid, which helps patients with kidney failure filter waste from their blood, as well as irrigation fluids, used during procedures to clean or flush wounds.
    — NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024

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