How to Use end-stage in a Sentence

end-stage

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alcohol is the top reason people need a liver transplant in the U.S. As a result, researchers and biotech companies alike are trying to find ways to stop the liver inflammation and scarring that cause end-stage disease.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 22 May 2024
  • They can be found in combination with other diseases, such as end-stage kidney disease on dialysis or in people with a blockage of a major heart valve (aortic stenosis).
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The world’s first successful transplant of a pig kidney into a living patient was carried out in March on a 62-year-old Massachusetts resident with end-stage kidney disease.
    Ty Roush, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • One of the most common causes of death in end-stage dementia is pneumonia, a lung infection people with severe dementia are more susceptible to.
    Jess Sims, Health, 10 May 2024
  • Musk is end-stage Citizens United Republicans’ tax cuts to the rich morphed into selling election outcomes.
    Sabrina Haake, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025

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