How Long Can People Live with Stage 5 Kidney Failure

How long can people live with stage 5 kidney failure and can they still live a normal life? As the last stage of kidney disease, stage 5 kidney failure can obviously affect the quality of life and even threaten the life. If you are a patient with stage 5 kidney failure, you will surely get benefits here.

It is really hard to give an exact answer to how long people live with stage 5 kidney failure, that is because many factors can affect the life expectancy for stage 5 kidney failure. For instance, when condition develops stage 5 kidney failure, most renal function has been lost, causing many complications to appear. However, cardiovascular disease can directly cause death. Whether there are any cardiovascular disease can make the life expectancy totally different. Of course how long people can live with stage 5 kidney failure is related to patients’ ages.

What is more, treatment patients will choose make the life expectancy for stage 5 kidney failure different. Compared with dialysis treatment, a successful kidney transplant can help patients live longer. But some types of kidney disease have a high relapse rate after a transplant, and this relapse rate can even reach up to 50%, such as FSGS, IgA Nephropathy, lupus nephritis and other autoimmune diseases.

Experts in Beijing Tongshantang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine hope patients do not care about the answer to how long people can live with stage 5 kidney failure. To treat the disease properly is the most important thing. You are welcomed to tell us more about your condition including what treatments you are taking, are there any obvious complications, your age and so on, then we will give you the corresponding medical advises to help manage your condition well.