Hammerstein contracted kidney problems and paralysis, eventually permanently falling into a coma.

Floyd has been close to two people who contracted kidney disease, underwent dialysis and are alive because of transplants.

Shortly after his election, he contracted kidney failure, and spent some time on dialysis before his uncle donated a kidney.

Gull and Sutton's main conclusion was that the morbid change in the arteries and capilleries was the primary and essential condition of the morbid state known as chronic Bright's disease with contracted kidney.

In the hearing, Miss Pierson is expected to tell Judge Sherman exactly what happened over the years after her mother, Cathleen, contracted kidney disease and died in February 1985, leaving her alone in the house with her father and younger sister.

In their introduction, Gull and Sutton point out that Dr. Bright and others have fully recognised that the granular contracted kidney is usually associated with morbid changes in other organs of the body and that these co-existent changes were commonly grouped together and termed "chronic Bright's disease."