end-stage
adjective
: being or occurring in the final stages of a terminal disease or condition
end-stage renal disease
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This is different from experiences providers have had with patients making Track 1 requests, as most of these patients have end-stage malignancy or organ failure and seldom have unmet health care needs.
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 8 July 2025
How better to represent Hwang’s themes of end-stage, winners-and-losers capitalism, with its warping, destructive power, and how the ill-intentioned can exploit democracy’s flaws, than to depict an ordinary person buffeted by the unseen hand of pain for profit?
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Wendt also suffered from end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 11 June 2025
Additionally, Wendt's death was due to significant contributing conditions, including end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 5 June 2025
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Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 8 July 2025
How better to represent Hwang’s themes of end-stage, winners-and-losers capitalism, with its warping, destructive power, and how the ill-intentioned can exploit democracy’s flaws, than to depict an ordinary person buffeted by the unseen hand of pain for profit?
—Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Wendt also suffered from end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 11 June 2025
Additionally, Wendt's death was due to significant contributing conditions, including end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia.
—Esther Kang, People.com, 5 June 2025
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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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