No one can say for sure how long a person will live with a certain condition, and a doctor is the best person to ask.
This is a long term condition which people can live with for a number of years. The only way you could 'recover' - i.e. be free of this disease, is to have a kidney transplant which may fail and requires taking 'anti-rejection' drugs for the rest of your life. The short answer is yes but only if you're lucky enough to get a transplant!
N. K. Man has written: 'Long-term hemodialysis' -- subject- s -: Adverse effects, Chronic Kidney Failure, Complications, Hemodialysis, Kidney Failure, Chronic, Long-term care, Therapy 'Blood Purification in Perspective'
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"Chronic" just means long term. Not necessarily "life threatening" or "life shortening". Hence most forms of kidney diseases would be described as "chronic".
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A person without kidneys that is not on dialysis may only live from a few days to several weeks before dying.
A full 30-40% of all individuals with Klippel Feil syndrome will have significant structural abnormalities of their urinary tract. These often lead to chronic kidney infections (pyelonephritis), and a high risk of kidney failure
Thanks to dialysis people live for many years with kidney failure
Acidosis if not treated can lead to growth retardation, kidney stones, bone disease, chronic kidney disease & in long run total kidney failure. Acidosis can be fully treated ('UNDER SUPERVISED MEDICAL GUIDANCE') with Alkalizers viz. Sodium Bicarbonate & Sodium Citrate / Potassium Magnesium Citrate etc.
Our bodies will accumulate toxins and we would die. Think about kidney failure and how long someone could live without dialysis.
People who have kidney failure, which is when 90% or more of the kidneys do not work, must be on dialysis. When kidneys fail the body cant cleanse the body of waste. The persons blood will become toxic and the person will die without dialysis or a kidney transplant. That's just with kidney failure. Of course you can live with only one kidney. Say you only had one kidney, that one kidney would have to be over 50% damaged before a person would possibly need to be on dialysis. To simply answer your question, you could have no problems with a damaged kidney, but failed kidneys will cause death.
It is possible to live a whole lifetime with just one kidney.