How to Use hemodialysis in a Sentence

hemodialysis

noun
  • My company is one of the few that provide hemodialysis systems for use in the home.
    — Leslie Trigg, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • King underwent hemodialysis and then passed out.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There are two types of dialysis — peritoneal and hemodialysis.
    — Justin Conn, The Seattle Times, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Sharon had six hours of hemodialysis five times a week for three months, her mother arranging for teachers to sit beside her, guiding her in her schoolwork.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
  • She was hooked up to a hemodialysis machine where her blood flowed out of her body to be purified and was then transferred back into her body where it was reabsorbed.
    — Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
  • Two companies make hemodialysis machines that the FDA has approved for home use.
    — Brett Kelman, CBS News, 6 July 2023
  • Home hemodialysis requires one to two months of education and training for both the patient and, usually, a care partner.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • The best form of dialysis for people with PKD is hemodialysis, where a dialysis machine is used to clean your blood.
    — Hallie Levine, Health.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In Japan, the oil crisis has sparked fears that patients with chronic kidney failure won’t be able to get treatment due to a lack of plastic medical tubes used in hemodialysis.
    — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • After losing one of his kidneys due to cancer several years ago, Otis, 57, has been forced to depend on at-home hemodialysis four days a week to stay alive.
    — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The infant required hemodialysis during the one-month hospital stay but thankfully recovered.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2023
  • People generally live longer and have a better quality of life with peritoneal dialysis compared with hemodialysis.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Jimmy received both types of dialysis — hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis — before getting a new kidney.
    — Dallas News, 20 May 2022
  • The HAVs are in clinical trials for hemodialysis access in end-stage kidney failure patients.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Some patients can be helped by an innovative calcimimetic that is delivered intravenously as part of their hemodialysis treatment.
    — Grace-Marie Turner, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Basnet hopes some day to work as a hemodialysis nurse to help alleviate some of the suffering her husband, now barely 105 pounds, has experienced.
    — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Cabrera witnessed the physical toll of hemodialysis when her grandmother was treated 10 years ago and called it a traumatic experience.
    — Dallas News, 20 May 2022
  • Lionel was named to head Good Samaritan’s hemodialysis unit, treating patients suffering from kidney failure.
    — Don Bedwell, Cincinnati.com, 20 Jan. 2020
  • In one study of people on hemodialysis, participants took either a placebo pill or a 530 milligram (mg) capsule of valerian once daily for a month.
    — Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2025
  • For patients experiencing conditions like kidney failure, treatments such as hemodialysis or dialysis can filter toxins from the blood when the kidneys can no longer keep a person healthy.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Traditional hemodialysis uses a machine to take over the kidneys’ job, taking blood out of the body, filtering it and diluting out the toxins against large amounts of fluids that approximate blood plasma.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Her team called for research to help minimize central venous catheters use, address possible barriers to use of safer routes for hemodialysis access, and improve education of patients and healthcare providers.
    — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Luker Dong, a resident in Pudong, said that his 73-year-old father suffered from uremia — a buildup of toxins in the blood — that required him to get hemodialysis at a hospital three times a week.
    — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Experts say home dialysis would encourage longer and more frequent treatments, which research has shown yields better outcomes than going to an outpatient dialysis clinic, where hemodialysis is commonly done three times a week.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 17 July 2019
  • Furthermore, antiseizure medication is commonly used to control seizures, hemodialysis helps with renal failure, and a digestive system cleanse helps to eliminate the toxin.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2023
  • For years, water from the couple's tap was piped into Otis' hemodialysis machine that filters and warms the water, then mixes it into a dialysate that filters the longtime EMT driver's blood.
    — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Most Americans in need of treatment do so through an uncomfortable procedure known as hemodialysis, which typically requires patients to sit for hours at a clinic multiple times a week as a machine filters toxins from their blood.
    — Robert Gebelhoff, Twin Cities, 14 July 2019
  • Kidney failure, or end-stage renal disease (ESRD), is commonly managed with hemodialysis, a treatment that removes waste products and excess fluids from the blood.
    — Leslie Trigg, Fortune, 17 May 2022
  • One piece of this complex puzzle is ongoing enhancements to Medicare reimbursement models that have historically encouraged in-center hemodialysis as the default treatment for patients beginning dialysis.
    — Leslie Trigg, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Medicare costs for one patient’s hemodialysis treatment is approximately $100,000 annually.
    — Robert Pearl, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026

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