End-stage renal disease is a stage where patients are on urgent need of dialysis, but dialysis in long term is more likely to cause life-threatening complications that drives patients to find a treatment helps patients with ESRD avoid dialys...Read More
Kidney transplant is a relatively ideal treatment for end stage renal failure. It can help patients get rid of dialysis, recover kidney functions and further prolong the life expectancy than those that are on dialysis. The major concerns af...Read More
Stage 5 kidney failure is also known as end stage renal disease (ESRD) in which less than 10-15% kidney functions are left. Usually at this advanced stage, dialysis or kidney transplant will be sought or the patient can have life risk at an...Read More
There are approximately 400,000 people in the United States are being diagnosed with renal failure each year and about 100,000 dialysis patients will die each years. We know that dialysis can not cure the disease and it can bring many side...Read More
CKD stage 5 means end stage kidney failure and it can cause swollen legs in many cases. In CKD stage 5, swollen legs occur because of serious fluid retention and in such a case, a medical treatment is very urgent, otherwise, more serious co...Read More
Oliguria can be described as decreased urine output and it is a common symptom of end stage kidney failure. Well, why people with end stage kidney failure suffer from this symptom and what does it mean? Why people with end stage kidney fail...Read More
It is really hard to tell the exact life expectancy of stage 5 renal failure without dialysis or kidney transplant, because it depends on many factors. But we can offer some information about the factors that can make influence on stage 5 r...Read More