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If a kidney shuts down due to sepsis plus part of the liver had to be cut out plus the heart is weakened plus?
the patient has chronic pancreatitis; has been very sick for a very long time; what are the percentages of living? The patient made it through the operation.
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- RetroBladerLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
It must be hard to see someone going through what you are describing.
Without knowing the specifics, it is simply impossible to give an estimate on the "percentage of living". (Is the patient in the ICU? Have the kidneys completely failed? How much is the heart weakened? How old/healthy is the person before all this?)
Your best bet is, therefore, to talk with the doctors looking after the patient you are describing.
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If you MUST know, despite all the medical advances over the years, kidney failure in the Intensive Care setting still carries a very poor prognosis, with mortality rates ranging from 25 to 80%: http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic1595.htm
However, all doctors (or any of us) can do is give you statistics on how similar patients fared in the past -- no one can predict exactly how a particular person will turn out, since everyone is different.
Moreover, dialysis is available for people whose kidneys shut down. In fact, tens of thousands of people are living among us today because of dialysis, even though their kidneys have completely failed. (However, when someone is very ill, with multiple organs not working well, dialysis may be very difficult, or even dangerous, to perform.)
Anyway, please talk with the doctors who are there, instead of trusting total strangers here on Yahoo Answers.
Best of luck.
- debbielewis05Lv 51 decade ago
No matter what others think or say, no one really knows that but god. that person make overcome that disease. you know with god all things are possible. god bless.