Can animals live when they have kidney failure?
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No, not for very long.  Kidney failure in people is treated eventually by dialysis.  If the animal is in total kidney failure, it cannot live.  However, often kidneys do not fail completely, so the animal may live for a while, a few days or weeks, but not feel very well.\n\nThese links will give you more information about the implications of kidney failure.
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It's not perfect because, quite simply nothing can replace your kidneys. Nature is better at detoxifying your blood than any man made contrivance.  With due deference to your illness and proper care it will have a minimal effect on your life expectancy. Jules, Australia.
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raisins AND grapes cause acute renal (kidney) failure in dogs.
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Genetically it is not really a suitable replacement.There are rejection problems involved in interspecies transplants.However current studies are being made into the suitability of pigs as donor material for various organ transplants.
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you will have kidney problems
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When one kidney has to do the work of two, you need to take care of that kidney. Without it you would be on dialysis. Believe\nme you don't want that.
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Never\nThe dog would die for its own illness\nMy son would die of his own\nsimple as that\nNo one fetches the burden of another
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Hi, I've learned a lot from the following website. Associated with it, there is a mailing list, where you can ask all kinds of questions about kidneys!! I hope you come visit us soon!
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"Polycystic kidney disease progresses slowly but persistently. Medical treatment may provide relief of symptoms for many years. Eventual end-stage kidney failure is common.\n\nThe absence of systemic disease or autoimmune disease makes people with polycystic kidney disease good candidates for kidney transplantation."\n(http://www.pennhealth.com/ency/article/000502.htm)\n\n\n"A doctor suspects this disease on the basis of family history and laboratory tests of kidney function. When the disease is advanced and the kidneys are very large, the diagnosis is obvious. Ultrasonography and computed tomography (CT) reveal the characteristic moth-eaten appearance of the kidneys and liver caused by the cysts.\n\nTreating urinary tract infections and high blood pressure may prolong life. However, more than half of the people who have this disease develop kidney failure at some time in their life. Without dialysis or kidney transplantation, kidney failure is fatal."\n(http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec11/ch146/ch146k.html)
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Kidneys failing is not a good sign, but if docs are still talking about operating, they must be thinking she'll live long enough to see benefits from the surgery.  I'm not a medical professional, but I do know that if doctors don't think a person has a chance, they're not going to make the patient submit to a painful, expensive surgery that will not prolong the patient's life.\n\nI would get this patient to the biggest medical center in the area and make sure that you have the best resources.  Make doctors explain things to you thoroughly so you understand what the situation is.\n\nThe diabetes, if uncontrolled, will greatly increase the level of complications and length of recuperation for this patient.
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NO Renal failure is very serious and will kill a person with in a week.\n\nYou as a Physician should know this or you are a medic and not a Doctor.\n\nAs a Navy Hospital Corpsman I would immediately draw the appropriate blood samples and get a stat result.  this will show if the person is trying to pull a fast one.
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They usually aren't. I've seen horses in the wild break a leg, heal up, and survive without human intervention. But it depends on the fracture. If the skin is broken, infection is the biggest danger. It is very difficult to treat bone infection in a horse, and that is the major cause of death in bone fractures. The second danger is laminitis. In nature, the horse carries his weight on the center of the foot, called the frog, and the foot bone directly above it called the coffin bone. Horseshoers have a bad habit of trimming the frog too short so the horse carries his weight on the outer edge of the foot where the shoe is. When the horse is standing for long periods of time on three legs, the connection between the outer hoof and the coffin bone is stressed and can break down. This can result in the coffin bone coming loose in the hoof and cutting through the bottom of the hoof, a condition called founder. This is big cause of death in a seriously injured horse. One big consideration is how the horse will be after healing. If a horse will have a significant limp, or be very arthritic, it is more humane to end his suffering right away. Often, tendons and ligaments are torn. A severed tendon is very difficult to heal. Ligaments will often heal eventually, but it is a long painful process. The horse can be put in a sling, like Swaps was, to keep weight off the leg. This requires that the horse be very cooperative. Often, the injured horse can't mentally take the stress of treatment. Forcing a high-strung athlete in training to suddenly stand quietly in a small stall for months can be torture in and of itself. Horses like Boitron have survived leg amputations and been fitted with an artificial leg. Most often, what I have seen, is that the decision is financial. How much will it cost to save the horse, versus what he will be worth if he survives. Racehorses are usually insured, so if it is put down the owner can take the money and buy another horse. The track vet is usually too eager to put a horse down. A friend of mine had a horse break his knee badly. The vet wanted to put the horse down on the track. The owner refused, and the vet insisted it had to be done. After the owner threatened to sue the vet, the owner was allowed to take the horse home alive. After a year of careful nursing by the owner, the horse not only survived without veterinary treatment but returned to racing and won.
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They can die from this disease.
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It could be a kidney infection.
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If he is going through acute kidney failure, yes, it is a temporary thing. However, if he has chronic kidney failure (most likely, from the info given) it is a permanent thing.
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A subsciption to "Penthouse".\nA pet armadillo.\nAn apartment with views overlooking a nuclear waste treatment facility.\n\nThere are an  infinite number of possible answers like that. All perfectly correct. Organsims can continue to live without any of those charcteristics, and most do live without them.\n\nYou haven't given us enough information to answer the question.
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Lets clarify this answer\n"92% at 1 year. \n80% at 5 years. \n54% at 10 years. "\nThis is graft survival (how long the kidney lasts)\nNot patient survival (if the kidney fails..the patient is still alive and can go back on dialysis to await another transplant)\nThe experts say that a patient with a functioning kidney transplant can expect to double the remaining life years they would have had on dialysis. Others sources say that transplant patients will live 10 years longer than would be expected on dialysis.