(26 quotes found)
“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.”
Roger Kahn
“The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.”
Tom Robbins
“You can't always see strokes and blindness or kidney, nerve and heart disease, ... But it's there. Research shows that frequent glucose testing reduces your chances of suffering from any of those complications.”
Charles Ray
“She was a diabetic and she had had a kidney transplant. She was a wonderful lady, and she would do whatever she could for you.”
Christina Lopez
“Diuretics are effective, easy to administer and inexpensive. Excessive use of diuretics provokes renal [kidney] insufficiency. Importantly, changes in renal function do impart an additional risk for patients with heart failure.”
Clyde W. Yancy
“Increased expression of this protein may cause kidney damage, which has nothing to do with pressure-induced kidney damage.”
Zhongjie Sun
“I knew the only thing that would help him was to get a kidney.”
Darren Lindsey
“There are plastic devices – bladder catheters, implants for kidney dialysis, Hickman tubes, pacemakers – every implant you can think of is a magnet for bacteria. The idea of having a permanent chemical bond to the metal is a new approach. This can be used for every metal and plastic implant, with every antibiotic.”
Eric Wickstrom
“Then I also contracted Hepatitis C from all of the blood transfusions I was getting because of my crazy kidneys. The doctors said that one of the donors probably had such a slight case that they were not able to detect it during the screening process.”
Dorothy Moore
“Last year alone, some 500 new cases of chronic kidney failures were diagnosed, and if the trend continues, both the prevalence and incidence of end stage renal diseases will double in the next five years.”
Dr Neil Bhagwandass
