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As a matter of fact, prognosis of the disease depends on many factors. For one with stage 3 kidney disease, if he attaches enough more importance for his problem and do more enough for his kidney, stage 3 kidney disease may never developed into kidney failure. But if he just leaves his problem alone and touch risky factors like infection and cold often, stage 3 kidney disease may progress to kidney failure within several months, several weeks or even several days. Therefore, how long they can have their kidney function actually depends on how they treat their disease.
In stage 3 kidney disease, various symptoms begin to appear like proteinuria, blood urine, frequent urination at night, back pain, fatigue, poor concentration and so on. Because of different kidney damages, patients with stage 3 kidney disease may have different symptoms. These symptoms although occur as the clinical manifestation of kidney damages, they, in turn, accelerate kidney disease. Therefore, if stage 3 kidney disease patients want to have a longer time before dialysis and kidney transplant, keeping these symptoms under control is very helpful.
GFR shorts for Glomerular Filtration Rate which is used to describe how well the kidney function. Normally, GFR ranges from 90 to 130, and when there is kidney damage, less blood is filtrated within a limited time, as a result of which, GFR decreases.
Dialysis or kidney transplant is suggested when GFR is lower than 15, so keeping a high GFR is a good way to keep far away from kidney failure. Many measures can be adopted to increase blood flowing into kidneys, but only repairing kidney damage is the root solution. Therefore, if stage 3 kidney disease patients with eGFR 58 want to have a long expectancy, repairing kidney damages and then recovering kidney function is necessary.
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