Kidneys Quotations

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.

A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.

Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

When you're doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it's true. You can't just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics.

I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

I was born three weeks early, and I kept being ill. From the age of zero to four, I was always in hospital having tests done, but they couldn't find out what was wrong. They discovered that one of my kidneys wasn't working properly, and it had scarred. I had to have 32 injections in my arm in the morning and evening to try and make me better.

Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors.

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery.

When we consume vastly more protein than we need, our kidneys struggle to process it, resulting in protein in the urine. Too much protein from meat may also contribute to kidney stones.

Ultimately, if this holds true for the whole study, the HBS solution could be very beneficial for human kidneys and we can expect a higher success rate for kidney transplants, which could save cost and save lives.

She lost her kidneys her first day in the hospital. She never really got them back. She wasn't in a situation where she could have received a donation.

He fractured his neck about four weeks ago and went to hospice. His body, liver, kidneys and all shut down. His mind remained sharp.

He came in with a chest infection originally but now that has spread to his kidneys and it is affecting his other organs. He's got internal bleeding. He's seriously ill - at this point, he's fighting for his life. It's about as bad as it can get.

Having been laying still for so many hours and being poorly hydrated for that period of time has resulted in some kidney dysfunction. We assume that will be a temporary phenomenon while the kidneys recover.

Her kidneys are shutting down. They are doing this surgery to save the kidneys and give the doctors time to find out what is wrong.

It causes kidney failure in the vultures. The kidneys shut down so the uric acid precipitates inside and on the surface of internal body organs. It destroys the animal inside and out within 24 to 72 hours.

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

You don't metabolize a drug based on how big you are. You metabolize a drug based on what's going on in your liver and your kidneys that changes the drug into inactive products and excretes it. Much of the reason Mrs. Jones does it differently than Mrs. Smith is because of the genes she's inherited from her parents.

In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?

The only significant gains in finding available kidneys for these patients are likely to come from KPD,

We were told that he could have a kidney transplant but chances were that in a couple of years his kidneys would just fail again.

The reason the red flags came up is because of my pops. My pops had kidney problems, so anything that's abnormal with my kidneys is something that should be taken seriously, not lightly.

The good news is that intensively controlling glucose significantly reduces heart disease as well as damage to the eyes, nerves, and kidneys in people with type-1 diabetes.

There could be a roundness of the face, sometimes called a ?moon face' due to the steroids. Their other organ functions are monitored closely to make sure the kidneys and livers are getting rid of the residues of these medications.

All of his other body systems have stabilized very nicely, his kidneys have recovered nicely and really we're left with a long neurological recovery, ... We would love it to be short, but I suspect it's going to be months to see how far he can come.

They're like the kidneys of surface water management. They provide filtration for contaminants like fertilizers, pesticides and metals.

donating kidneys the new, trendy, hot thing to do.

Acid runs through his body all the time. High levels of acid all the time. It got to the point his kidneys failed.

In the survival studies conducted here, 80% of the rats with kidneys preserved in the HBS solution survived for more than seven days, whereas none of the same number of rats with kidneys preserved in the HTK solution survived more than four days.

Some days I feel like everyone in my world has plugged themselves into my kidneys. I'm so tired.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.

I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently.

Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years.

The danger is it's so much like an intestinal flu. The kidneys start to shut down before you know it.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

The ideas come from classic Italian cooking, or any European culture, for that matter. As far as something like the offal menu, Europeans would definitely not throw anything away, and the use of the head or the liver or the kidneys is part of their quotidian experience.

Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys.

Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.

What about my brain? What about my heart? What about my kidneys and my gallbladder?

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.

Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker. I hope his kidneys fail.

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her unknown heart, her nacreous liver, the sea-grapes of her lungs, her comely twin kidneys.

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.