How to Use dialysis in a Sentence
dialysis
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Was on dialysis and had my heart broken just days before this picture.
— Marianne Garvey, CNN, 30 Dec. 2020 -
Tubes and intravenous drips extend through their bodies while dialysis machines help filter blood.
— NBC News, 31 Dec. 2020 -
Doctors placed him on the heart-lung bypass machine, put him on dialysis and performed a heart procedure to relieve pressure.
— New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021 -
He was immunocompromised, after years of dialysis and a kidney transplant.
— Terese Marie Mailhot, Time, 28 Dec. 2020 -
Others look at specific groups, like dialysis patients or hospital workers.
— Nathaniel Scharping, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Jan. 2021 -
Some patients require kidney dialysis or suffer liver damage.
— Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020 -
Dialysis centers are starting to struggle with staffing shortages, too, and there are now not enough outpatient dialysis resources available.
— Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2021 -
He recently was placed on dialysis after his kidneys began to fail, another complication brought on by the disease.
— Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2021 -
For patients with kidney failure, dialysis manually removes toxins and excess fluids from the body.
— Lauren Caruba, Laura Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Feb. 2021 -
Kidney dialysis patients are among those most at risk from Covid-19, which is especially deadly among people with chronic illnesses.
— NBC News, 30 Dec. 2020 -
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 -
He was forced to go on dialysis and put on the liver transplant list.
— Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024 -
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 longer a young person is on dialysis, the more difficult their medical future will likely be.
— Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
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