Kidney Renal Failure Stages. There are 5 stages of chronic kidney disease. People with end stage renal disease require either permanent dialysis a mechanical filtration process used to remove toxins and wastes from the body or a kidney transplant to survive.
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End stage renal disease esrd or renal failure is the end stage of kidney function not the end stage of life. Read more everything you should know about stage 3. Chronic kidney disease ckd refers to all five stages of kidney damage from very mild damage in stage 1 to complete kidney failure in stage 5.
Left untreated renal failure will result in death.
Some people have symptoms of kidney failure while others do not. In stage 4 you have severe irreversible damage to the kidneys. Stage 5 is kidney failure. Left untreated renal failure will result in death.
