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Originally Posted by aigel
Also, regarding the thread title. You don't die if you don't get a kidney transplant, you go to dialysis.
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Thank you doctor.
Dialysis prolongs death, it doesn't save lives and it is not a cure.
I've seen this first hand.
The problem is this:
the kidneys filter the blood constantly. Every minute of every day to prevent the build-up of toxins. Dialysis is not a replacement for that.
A typical dialysis patient goes in for treatment about three times a week (or more) after the toxins have built up to levels that are harmful.
IOW the patient is almost always sick and being poisoned by his own system.
Eventually it gets to the point where the vital organs can't take it anymore and they stop functioning. The heart is usually the one that does it.
A patient with stage 4 renal failure (loss of over 80% of function) has a life expectancy of less than a year without dialysis.
With dialysis, that same patient might live two or three years.
Without a kidney transplant, dialysis is almost always death sentence for a stage 4 renal failure patient.
I don't recall if the article stated how long she has already been on dialysis, but it's likely she is very close to being out of time already.