How to Use end-stage in a Sentence

end-stage

adjective

• The end-stage is known as a rocker-bottom foot due to the shape of the feet appearing like a rocking chair.
  — Isabel Casimiro, Verywell Health, 22 May 2025
• The cause was end-stage renal disease, said his wife, Sally McLain.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• The only cure for end-stage liver disease is a transplant.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• The death certificate lists Bonin’s cause of death as end-stage renal disease.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2023
• Fries died of end-stage dementia in 2021, at the age of eighty-three, and his broader prediction never seemed to come true.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Valdez had been battling end-stage kidney failure and died at home, his son, Steve Valdez, told the station on Friday.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 May 2023
• The team plans to begin a clinical trial next year to test the idea in people with end-stage liver disease.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
• Mom had end-stage Alzheimer’s disease and could no longer communicate.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• What was once an obscure drug to treat pain in end-stage cancer patients has become the leading cause of death for American adults under the age of 50.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 2 July 2023
• Andrews had spent the better part of two years on dialysis because of end-stage kidney disease.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
• All participants will be 55 to 70 years old, have end-stage kidney disease and have been on dialysis for at least six months.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2025
• Many people with IgAN never reach end-stage kidney disease.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 25 Sep. 2024
• Andrews, of Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
• 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
• The gold standard treatment for end-stage kidney disease is a transplant from a living donor, which can last its recipient up to twice as long as one from a deceased source.
  — Steven Levitt, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
• Paying Attention To Process One of the most vexing problems in assessing student work is that one sees only the end-stage result rather than the process of its production.
  — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes, 18 Sep. 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
• Pacheco was diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure earlier this year.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
• At 65, Dickens now suffers from congestive heart failure and end-stage renal disease.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for more than two years to compensate for his failing kidney function.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
• Those who have reached this point, known as end-stage liver disease, may experience confusion, weight loss and yellow discoloration in the skin and eyes, among other symptoms.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2025
• The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage kidney disease.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 30 June 2024
• Pacheco, 37, sought treatment at a local hospital and was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure, Siegel said.
  — Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2025
• The ensuing rise in blood pressure can cause cardiomyopathy (stiffening of the heart muscle), contributing to end-stage heart failure.
  — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 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
• Also known as end-stage kidney disease, this may require either a kidney transplant or dialysis.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
• The surgical team, in consultation with the FDA, decided to operate on a patient with less-severe end-stage kidney disease.
  — Alice Park, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
• United Therapeutics, a public company based in Silver Spring, Maryland, plans to test its pig kidneys first in six patients with end-stage kidney disease and then in as many as 50.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
• With medical care for end-stage organ disease improving, more people are living long enough to make the transplant list, creating demand for more organs.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
• Wendt also suffered from end-stage renal disease, otherwise known as kidney failure, and hyperlipidemia.
  — Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 11 June 2025