Kidney Vasculitis Life Expectancy. Vasculitis can also cause damage to organs that can affect overall life expectancy. Overall 70 of the transplants were still working after 10 years 8.
Men and women aged 40 years had a life expectancy of 30 5 and 34 6 years at egfr 60 ml min 1 73 m 2 24 5 and 28 7 years at egfr 45 59 ml min 1 73 m 2 14 5 and 16 5 years at egfr 30 44 ml min 1 73 m 2 and 10 4 and 9 1 years at egfr 15 29 ml min 1 73 m 2 respectively. A patient with anca disease who gets a kidney transplant can expect a similar life span and kidney transplant survival as a transplant patient who has kidney failure from another disease. In addition use of medications to treat vasculitis that suppress the body s immune system can increase the risk of infection.
All consultants felt that vasculitis should be in remission at transplantation 16 believed that anca should be negative pre transplant and 40 felt that one should wait 12 months after remission before transplanting.
The main side effect is infection. Forms of vasculitis that cause damage to major organs such as the kidneys or the cardiovascular system can have a negative impact on overall life expectancy. I mentioned my normal life my normal life before vasculitis consisted of an eight hour work day about 12 hours on a part time job each week church twice on sunday church on wednesday evenings and the rest of my time was spent doing things with family friends and clowns. Overall 70 of the transplants were still working after 10 years 8.