What is the Life Expectancy for Stage 5 Kidney(Renal) Failure

The life expectancy can range from months to several or many years, depending on the patients' specific illness condition.
The life expectancy is the best among young patients with no heart disease or other severe complications. If complications of dialysis such as hypotension, arhythmia and hypoxemia can be well handled, then the life expectancy can be possibly prolonged.
But for those with combined heart diseases and other severe vascular diseases, complications of dialysis and end-stage renal disease such as renal anemia, metabolic disorder and high blood potassium can shorten the life expectancy. In such cases, even a kidney transplant is not recommended because cardiovascular diseases can be aggravated when heavy dosage of immunosuppressive agents are adopted or infections occur in the transplantation.
Also, according to a recent medical report, life expectancy is better in those with more remaining kidney function than others, even if dialysis(whether peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis) is adopted.
In moat cases, when patients just begin dialysis, there is still some remaining kidney units. But by relying on dialysis and leaving the remaining kidney units alone, the kidneys will gradually get failed and atrophied. With this course(long or short), patients will have to undergo dialysis more and more frequently and will have higher chances of suffering from infections, cardiovascular diseases and malnutrition, which can be life-threatening.

How are Diabetes and Kidney Failure Interlinked with Each Other

 Kidney failure led by diabetes is usually more complex and dangerous then other kidney diseases, even after the initiation of dialysis and kidney transplant, diabetics tend to go on much worser than others.
Then how are Diabetes and kidney failure interlinked with each other?
First, Diabetes can cause renal failure. The culprit in the progression into end-stage renal failure is the high blood glucose, which forces the kidneys to work beyond its capacity so as to excrete the excessive sugar out, thus gradually damaging renal capillaries. High blood glucose also slows down blood flow and intensifies blood concentration, causing deposits of excellular matrix in glomeruli and thickening glomerular basilar membrane. Over time, more and more glomeruli are damaged and diffuse glomerular sclerosis develops, causing increasing amount of protein in urine.
Besides, high blood pressure, whether primary or secondary to diabetes, is another important factor that deteriorate kidney condition. Diabetics with high blood pressure usually have a poorer prognosis than others. Another factor that increases chances of getting renal failure is family history of kidney diseases, but the genetic rate varies.
The earliest sign of diabetic kidney disease is microalbuminuria, which refers to protein in urine between 30mg/24h to 300mg/24h. Heavy proteinuria(>3.5 g/24h) and overall swelling usually indicate that the disease has developed into clinical stage and will develop into end-stage renal failure rapidly.
How does diabetes affect the patients at end-stage renal failure?
In end-stage renal failure, patients are faced with both complications of kidney failure(such as vomiting, nausea, poor appetite, swelling and short breath) and diabetic complications(such as heart disease, retinopathy and neuropathy). So the situation is hard to be controlled. Also, due to lowered immunity, diabetics are also more likely to get infections, which, if occurs, can aggravate heart disease and can be life-threatening. Thereby, diabetics on dialysis usually have a poorer prognosisthan other kidney diseases.

How to Treat IgA Nephropathy

IgA Nephropathy is a set of chronic glomerular diseases which have the same immunopathology characteristics. 40%-50% of patients got gross hematuria or microscopical hematuresis. 35%-40% of the patients have manifestations like microscopical hematuresis together with proteinuria. The others have symptoms of nephrotic syndrome or renal failure.
Treating IGA Nephropathy sclerosis with hormone, triptolide and cyclophosphamide to anti-inflammation is not enough to improve ischemia and anaerobic condition, and can’t repair glomerular filtration membrane effectively and recover its normal functions. It is obvious that hormone, triptolide and cyclophosphamide can play provisional roles as follows: first restrain the generation of receptor and control the damage and progress of inflammation; second deal with urine protein and occult blood in symptomatic treatment. In fact, these drugs can’t repair the damaged renal intrinsic cells, so the source of the trouble isn’t eliminated.
Even if proteinuria and occult blood are disappeared after taking medicine in focal proliferous sclerosing IgA nephropathy, due to the disease fundamental lesion can’t be treated, the lesion of renal intrinsic cells are still in. Thus, proteinuria and occult blood will repeat due to reiterative immune complex deposit. Therefore, what should we do to treat IGA nephropathy? The most fundamental key to treat IgA Nephropathy is to repair damaged renal intrinsic cells.
After many years’ research and experiment, a characteristic treatment has been established in China Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital: Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. Actived Chinese Medicine substance contributes its effects in improving internal environment. It can also provide various nutritions to renal intrinsic cells. In the end achieving the goal of repairing intrinsic renal cells, recovering renal functions and avoiding the repeating disease.

Treat Renal Failure and Lower High Creatinine Level in Blood Apart from Dialysis

Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is the special treatment method of renal failure and lowering creatinine level in blood.
This therapy aims to repair damaged kidneys by dilating blood vessels (to improve ischemia and anoxia condition and kidney burden) and anti-inflammation (to protect the normal kidney cells from being damaged).
What really counts is that the kidney cells will be repaired gradually. After the damaged kidney cells are repaired by this therapy, the necrotic ones can be replaced by new cells differentiated by stem cells,
Stem Cell Transplant is the new treatment method of renal failure and lowering creatinine level in blood.
New and healthy cells can be created by stem cells to replace the dead kidney cells.
With the help of combination of Micro-Chinese Osmotherapy and Stem Cell Transplant, there are more normal kidney units. And then kidney function will be improved so as to remove toxin in body and then decrease the high creatinine level. Once their kidney function is improved fundamentally, they are more likely to get rid of dialysis or lessen the frequency of receiving dialysis at least.

Prevent Renal Failure from Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD)

In China, Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) can be controlled well by traditional medicine (TCM), which has a very long history of more than 2000 years. It is practiced by about 1/5 population of the world. Even many people in the United States, Australia, Europe and Canada regard Chinese medicine as their first line of defense in maintaining health and combating diseases. Back of centuries of empirical experience, the huge pharmacopeia contain thousands of substances include plant, animal, mineral origin, most of them herbs, some of which can restrain the growing of cysts on kidney effectively. In recent decades, new external application method of TCM on treating PKD is developed to avoid bitter taste and little side effects of some traditional herbs. It is called Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, which is practiced a lot and effects of it has been proved.
The herbs, which have effects on preventing PKD developing will be micronized first and then osmosed into kidney lesions from skin.
The medicine could be taken home to be used continuously without any side effects by external application. Then the cysts can be controlled well. You don’t need to worry about it all day long.

Specialized Chinese Medicine Therapy in Chronic Renal Failure

As to this problem, what are the opinions of experts from Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital?
In our opinion, it is possible to stop the progress of Chronic Renal Failure. If we can find out the source of the disease, we can treat it perfectly.
Our treatment in Chronic Renal Failure is combined traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, the main treatment is not traditional Chinese Medicine therapy but modern Chinese Medicine therapy. We treat Chronic Renal Failure with Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, not only treat the symptoms in clinic but also treat the primary source of the disease, so achieving the perfect effect in clinic. For many years’ research, we found that the reason why the there are many symptoms like proteinuria and hematuresis , edema and high blood pressure, anemia and increasing creatinine in chronic nephritis especially chronic renal failure is that there are micro-circulatory disorders, inflammatory response, condition of ischemia and hypoxia, cruor mechanism hyperfunction, generation and degradation imbalances of extracellular matrix. If this lesion continues, renal functional cells will change from withering to necrosis, and its number will be smaller and smaller, this progress is called renal fibrosis. Abnormal hyperplastic extracellular matrix namely fibrous tissue will be more and more, they cover and replace the renal intrinsic cells gradually. So to speak, renal fibrosis is the primary source of Chronic Renal Failure. Now you know, if the progress of renal fibrosis isn’t stopped, all of the symptoms will not disappear thoroughly. But the actual situation is that there is none of the western medicine in recent medicine can stop the fibrosis progress. While traditional Chinese Medicine is too weak to stop renal fibrosis. Only 25% of traditional Chinese Medicine which we have taken can reach to the renal lesion.
Aiming at the above results and analysis and after many years research, we have developed Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy. The core technology of Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy is to make the effective prescriptions of kidney disease super-finely shattered. Then with the help of effective penetrant and osmosis devices, the effective medicines are permeated into kidney lesions by external application, thus achieving the goal of blocking renal fibrosis. The Micro-Chinese Medicine has the effects as follows:
1. dilating blood vessels 2. anti-flammation 3. anticoagulation.
Micro-Chinese Medicine can eliminate lesion factors of renal fibrosis, so renal fibrosis progress is stopped. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy provides nutritions to damaged renal intrinsic cells. And improve these cells to restore their functions. Besides, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy can play the role as dredging meridians, conditioning organs and enhancing sufferers’ immunity.

The Treatments of Kidney Failure Caused by Hypertension

So far, there are six kinds of hypotensor: diuretics, Bata Blocker, Calcium Antagonist, Alpha Blocker, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme, Angiotensin Receptor Antagonist, which are all chemical drugs or medicines. They are effective in treating Acute Hypertension or hypertensive crisis as well as perioperative hypertension. However, those medicines tend to cause blood pressure to fluctuate greatly, which will affect the metabolism of water, electrolyte, blood lipid, blood glucose and so on. For instance, too fast lowering blood pressure will make heart fail in pumping enough blood for vital activities and especially damage brain and kidneys which are rich in capillaries. Western medicines mainly dilate blood vessels to lower blood pressure but they are helpless in improving high lipid, high viscosity in blood, angiosclerosis along with damaged organs. As reported, Kidney Failure and Heart Failure take main responsibility for the death of patients with hypertension. Therefore, the blood pressure can not be controlled stable and the persistent wavy blood pressure will make those patients have hypotensor in their whole life.
Hypertension and Kidney Failure
Hypertension is the main factor of deteriorating Kidney Failure. As kidneys are rich in capillaries, renal tissues, especially kidney tubules, are sensitive to the lack of blood and oxygen resulting from fluctuating blood pressure. Actually, Kidney Failure is the result of the interaction of hypertension and Kidney Failure. Most patients with Kidney Failure are accompanied with hypertension, while hypertension is destined to damage kidneys. However, the people with hypertension seldom have the ideal of their lost renal function. The effective medicines can lower blood pressure gradually and protect other organs at the same time.
Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy
In order to lower hypertension forever, we must solve the problems of thick blood and sclerotic blood vessels. Chinese herbal medicines in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy boast for regulating blood lipid, blood glucose and blood pressure, such as Kendir and Glossy Ganoderma. Some other substances in Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy are able to not only dilate blood vessels but also soften them. Moreover, it is a long and chronic course of lowering blood pressure through Chinese traditional medicines, which is stable and harmonious. The side effects are little, because Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy applies external technology and equipment not oral methods, avoiding the discomforts of intestine and abdomen. At the same time, it can enhance the immunity and protect kidneys and other organs from being damaged.