Re: liver desease, and kidney failure

[Guest guest]

Hi Raceylady212,

Welcome to the group. My wife passed away from cirrhosis and did end up with

both liver and kidney failure. When the liver starts to fail the kidneys are

over worked trying to remove toxins and other substances from the body that the

liver can longer do. Because of this the kidneys start to fail as well.

When this happens it is a very bad sign and leaves a poor prognosis. Dialysis is

an option but this won't keep the liver from failing or effecting other organs

like the heart.

My prayers are with you and your friend.

MaC

raceylady212 wrote: this

is my second message....has anyone delt with a person that had

both kidney failure, and end stages of cirrhosis ??? If so what can we

do??? ....can we prolong this life???

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[Guest guest]

Also one thing I didn't mention in my last post was that kidney

failure in a cirrhosis patient is called Hepatorenal syndrome. I will

post more info about that in a bit. Right now I have a fussy six year

old to attend to. :-)

MaC

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> this is my second message....has anyone delt with a person that had

> both kidney failure, and end stages of cirrhosis ??? If so what can we

> do??? ....can we prolong this life???

>