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Complete kidney failure means that your kidneys are no longer doing their jobs filtering your blood for byproducts/waste/toxins. You can tell that these patient hardly urinate if any at all. As the result, a person will not live more than 3-4 days before he/she will become very ill and die. The only treatment is kidney transplant. However, a person can survive with dialysis for years. This is an artificial machine that physically filter your blood and put it back into your body. This is done about 3 times a week. This is how a patient on a kidney transplant waiting list survive until they get their transplant. Without this machine, I doubt that any patients with kidneys failure live long enough to find the right match for surgery.

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