Question 1

how long can you live with liver failure and kidney failure and heart failure?

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See below: If you have severe heart, liver and kidney failure, your outlook is poor...Sorry!

Question 2

how long can a person live with liver and kidney failure?

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Depends.: Depends on the severity and reversibility of these. This is a dangerous combination of organs to be failing and should be followed closely by doctors.

Question 3

for what length of time can a person live with liver and kidney failure and they are really bright yellow?

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Failure of organs: The person you are describing is clearly very, very sick. He appears to have jaundice due to his bilirubin being elevated with is seen in liver disease caused by many different etiologies. If he has kidney failure, this may be due acute kidney failure caused by hypotension or a less common fatal condition called hepato-renal syndrome. Ask the patient's doctors for more information.

Question 4

how long to live after liver and kidney failure?

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Depends: There has been a large amount of literature that has come out regaarding the elderly with advanced kidney disease and delaying dialysis. People actually do bette rwithout dialysis if they have no symptoms related to kidney failure(volume overload, uremia, etc). Some patients can live years without significant symproms or compromise, while others may need dialysis earlier.

Question 5

my sister took a overdose of 76 tramadol 35mg /325mg paracetamol her tox levels were extremely high she has liver and kidney failure could she survive with this level of damage . thank you?

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: Hard to speculate. You said her levels were high but what are the damage levels shown by liver enzymes. The cited exposures can kill the kidneys, which can be bypassed but the liver damage may be too much to survive. It certainly suggests a fatal outcome after a slow and messy decline. Prepare yourself and the family for bad news.

Question 6

40 year old woman, liver and kidney failure. dialysis every other day. denied liver transplant. how long to live?

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Dialysis effective?: You should be fine as long as dialysis is effective in correcting the symptoms of kidney and liver failures and no other complications

Question 7

i got diagnosed with kidney and liver disease. what is it? is it critical? they want to do an ultrasound because my liver function is elevated? what's the treatments? could i go into liver and kidney failure?

Accepted Answer

: The pathologic association between these 2 organs is vast. Give example, patient with viral hepatitis B or C may cause kidney disease or liver cirrhosis can cause acute kidney injury. Specific treatment varies according to the etiology. If you truly have both liver and kidney problems, your medical care should be coordinated between your family doctor, a hepatologist and a nephrologist.

Question 8

why does liver and kidney failure lead to eyes turning yellow and skin jaundiced?

Accepted Answer

Bilirubin : Bilirubin will accumulate because the liver cannot metabolize it and the kidneys cannot excrete the bilirubin, hence the yellow jaundice.

Question 9

is there a permanent treatment for alcoholic liver and kidney disease?

Accepted Answer

No, but: Quitting always leads to an improvement, unless it is too late!

Question 10

i have polycystic liver and kidney disease. im51 an have bruses on my arms, thighs, an abdomen. why?

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Liver Disease: Bruising and bleeding. When the liver slows or stops producing the proteins needed for blood clotting, a person will bruise or bleed easily.

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My sister took a overdose of 76 tramadol 35mg /325mg paracetamol her tox levels were extremely high she has liver and kidney failure could she survive with this level of damage . thank you?

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40 year old woman, liver and kidney failure. dialysis every other day. denied liver transplant. how long to live?

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I got diagnosed with kidney and liver disease. what is it? is it critical? they want to do an ultrasound because my liver function is elevated? what's the treatments? could i go into liver and kidney failure?

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Why does liver and kidney failure lead to eyes turning yellow and skin jaundiced?

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I have polycystic liver and kidney disease. im51 an have bruses on my arms, thighs, an abdomen. why?

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