end-stage
adjective
: being or occurring in the final stages of a terminal disease or condition
end-stage renal disease
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Fries died of end-stage dementia in 2021, at the age of eighty-three, and his broader prediction never seemed to come true.
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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The procedure was carried out in Houston on March 25 as part of a clinical trial that will test the experimental treatment in 12 adults with end-stage liver disease.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
The only cure for end-stage liver disease is a transplant.
—Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
The patient is a Black man, and the procedure may have special significance for Black patients, who suffer high rates of end-stage kidney disease.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
For example, someone with end-stage liver disease may always have pain in the upper right side of their abdomen.
—Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 5 Mar. 2024
Reporters also used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the number of deaths from liver disease and cirrhosis that occurred in each state as an indicator of the need for liver transplants, as all candidates on the liver transplant wait list have end-stage liver disease.
—Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
Patients who get the device are often out of options to treat their end-stage heart failure, said Larry Allen, a cardiologist with the University of Colorado and member of a multidisciplinary medical team that cares for heart failure patients.
—Daniel Chang, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
The death certificate lists Bonin’s cause of death as end-stage renal disease.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2023
Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The procedure was carried out in Houston on March 25 as part of a clinical trial that will test the experimental treatment in 12 adults with end-stage liver disease.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
The only cure for end-stage liver disease is a transplant.
—Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
The patient is a Black man, and the procedure may have special significance for Black patients, who suffer high rates of end-stage kidney disease.
—Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
For example, someone with end-stage liver disease may always have pain in the upper right side of their abdomen.
—Jenny Sweigard, Verywell Health, 5 Mar. 2024
Reporters also used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the number of deaths from liver disease and cirrhosis that occurred in each state as an indicator of the need for liver transplants, as all candidates on the liver transplant wait list have end-stage liver disease.
—Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
Patients who get the device are often out of options to treat their end-stage heart failure, said Larry Allen, a cardiologist with the University of Colorado and member of a multidisciplinary medical team that cares for heart failure patients.
—Daniel Chang, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
The death certificate lists Bonin’s cause of death as end-stage renal disease.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2023
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end-stage
adjective
: being or occurring in the final stages of a terminal disease or condition
end-stage liver failure
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