Kidney failure with Dialysis life expectancy

Many Dialysis patients want to know how long they can live with dialysis. This article will tell you the answer from the principle of dialysis.
Kidney dialysis is artificial replacement of kidney function, in case of renal failure; it can be acute or chronic renal failure.

So let us analysis the life expectancy for kidney failure patients with dialysis
The mortality rate of persons undergoing kidney dialysis for end stage renal disease is 22% in a year; this means survival rate beyond 5 years is difficult.
When a person undergoes dialysis, it is his conscious decision, because without it his survival will be in jeopardy even for few days as a result of accumulation of body toxins in the blood which cannot be removed due to kidney failure.

Generally it is observed that long term survival of patients on dialysis depends on adequacy of the dialysis process, patients who undergo shorter or irregular dialysis remain under dialyzed and malnourished have bad prognosis.


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