Patient's question:
Recently, my appetite has been poor, and I've also noticed some swelling in my body. I feel completely weak. When I went to the hospital for a check-up, they said it was kidney disease. Could you please tell me what the mortality rate is for uremia?Doctor's answer:
Uremia is the final outcome of various chronic kidney diseases, at which point the function of the glomeruli is weakened. Currently, uremia can be life-saving through kidney transplantation, but it requires finding a suitable kidney donor. If the patient has biological siblings, the probability of successful matching is relatively high. After kidney transplantation, survival rates can vary between 10 to 20 years. However, for patients who do not undergo kidney transplantation, long-term dialysis patients generally have a survival period of 5 to 8 years.