The dialysis patients seemed unaware of how well they had adjusted.

He will become a dialysis patient, like his daughter.

During this process, the dialysis patient is exposed to a week's worth of water for the average person.

American dialysis patients receive, on average, about 10 hours a week, medical experts said.

With the American annual mortality rate above 23 percent, more than 40,000 of this country's 187,000 dialysis patients will be dead next year.

Under such a system, the Government would pay a set amount each year to cover all the medical costs of a dialysis patient.

Sales to dialysis patients are expected to reach about $300 million this year.

For nine years my husband, Bill, was a dialysis patient.

As in the case of many dialysis patients, other health problems cropped up.

Her body rejected a transplant a year later, and for seven years she was a dialysis patient.