how long can someone live with severe ascites?
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The survival rate 5 years after ascites develops is only 30-40% and it is important that the patient and doctor discuss a referral to a liver specialist and a liver transplant center. The most important step to treat ascites is to strictly reduce the salt intake.
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Ascites is the build-up of fluid in the abdomen. This fluid buildup causes swelling that usually develops over a few weeks, although it can also happen in just a few days. Ascites is very uncomfortable and causes nausea, tiredness, breathlessness, and a feeling of being full.
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PROGNOSIS: Your recovery depends on the type of cirrhosis you have and if you stop drinking. Only 50% of people with severe alcoholic cirrhosis survive 2 years, and only 35% survive 5 years.
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After a follow-up period of 15 years (mean, 6.5 years), life expectancy was retrospectively calculated (Kaplan-Meier survival curves) and compared with an age- and sex-matched normal popula- tion (log-rank tests). Ninety-five patients (15%) (mean age, 46.8 years; 78% men) were found to have fatty liver disease.
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This varies from person to person. People who stop dialysis may live anywhere from one week to several weeks, depending on the amount of kidney function they have left and their overall medical condition.
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A growing number of people with stage IV colon cancer live longer than 2 years. And for a small group of people with cancer that has only spread to your liver or lung, surgery might even cure it.
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Life expectancy for stage 3 kidney disease differs between men and women. In general, 40 year old men with stage 3 kidney disease can expect to live for 24 years after diagnosis, and 40 year old women with stage 3 kidney disease can expect to live 28 years.
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Life expectancy for stage 2 kidney disease differs between men and women. In general, 40 year old men with stage 2 kidney disease can expect to live for 30 years after diagnosis, and 40 year old women with stage 2 kidney disease can expect to live 34 years.
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The length of FTD varies, with some patients declining rapidly over two to three years, and others showing only minimal changes over a decade. Studies have shown persons with FTD to live with the disease an average of eight years, with a range from three years to 17 years.
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Without any fluids (either as sips, ice chips or intravenously) people with a complete bowel obstruction most often survive a week or two. Sometimes it's only a few days, sometimes as long as three weeks. With fluids, survival time may be extended by a few weeks or even a month or two.
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Signs and symptoms Mild ascites is hard to notice, but severe ascites leads to abdominal distension. People with ascites generally will complain of progressive abdominal heaviness and pressure as well as shortness of breath due to mechanical impingement on the diaphragm.
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Some people whose CHF is discovered early and treated promptly and effectively can hope to have a nearly normal life expectancy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , around half of people diagnosed with CHF will survive beyond five years.
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In general, about 75% of people who undergo liver transplant live for at least five years. That means that for every 100 people who receive a liver transplant for any reason, about 70 will live for five years and 30 will die within five years.
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A healthy human being can live approximately 45 to 65 days without food of any kind, so long as he or she keeps hydrated. You could survive without any severe symptoms [for] about 30 to 35 days, but after that you would probably experience skin rashes, diarrhea, and of course substantial weight loss.
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When someone is no longer taking in any fluid, and if he or she is bedridden (and so needs little fluid) then this person may live as little as a few days or as long as a couple of weeks. In the normal dying process people lose their sense of hunger or thirst.
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It takes around ten years before this starts to occur in most people, and it impacts 10-20% of long-term heavy drinkers. The damage caused by cirrhosis isn't reversible, and it's one of the primary ways alcoholism can kill you.
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Ascites occurs in patients with increased pressure in the hepatic veins and in the veins draining into the peritoneum; it usually reflects long-standing systemic venous hypertension. Fever may be present in severe decompensated heart failure because of cutaneous vasoconstriction and impairment of heat loss.