Nephrectomy in a sentence as a noun

There were two kidney recipients, right kidney recipient remains alive because of nephrectomy.

Also the assessment text they present seems challenging:“Patient is a 62 y/o female with PMH of HTN, DM, morbid obesity, asthma, renal cell carcinoma s/p right nephrectomy in 2001, CAD s/p PCI with c/o left sided chest pain since 2 days.

Nephrectomy definitions

noun

surgical removal of a kidney