Life Expectancy of Patients with Chronic Renal Failure

Chronic Renal Failure describes a serious and progressive medical condition affecting your kidneys, and it can be caused by diabetes or hypertension. Chronic Renal Failure usually causes no signs or symptoms and is often detected being done for another condition. Patients who are suffering from Chronic Renal Failure means the conditions have been developed to the end stage of kidney disease. Well, in this case, how long should the patients expect their own life expectancy?

According to the renal pathological research, before the condition develops to uremia and CFR (glomerular filtration rate) higher than 5%, you still have a chance to get better.

As for the exact life expectancy, it depends on specific situations. Hypothetically, a patient with Chronic Renal Failure is detected in early stage with a relative low creatinine. He may have a good chance to recover. In simple and popular language, in early stage of Chronic Renal Failure, the condition can get better through appropriate treatment while the inadequate treatment would lead to uremia which can be harder to remedy. Taking what kind of treatment depends on not only your own condition but also your physical condition. Moreover, keeping your body warm and your mind peaceful, taking a healthy diet also can help you live a relative good quality of life. Building confidence is one of the vital factors which can help you slow down the progression, meanwhile, speed up the process of recovery.

When the condition has been in an on-going down-trend and finally developed to end-stage renal failure (ESRF), we should take effective therapy right now, furthermore, repair kidney function as much as possible. There are chances to bring the condition under control and improve patients’ life quality at the same time.