Can you recover from organ failure?

  Whether organ failure can be recovered depends on the severity of the disease, the timeliness of treatment and the general condition of the patient. Patients with multi-organ failure, organ failure due to chronic disease or patients with untimely treatment usually cannot recover.  Most patients with organ failure due to acute lesions, such as multi-organ failure due to acute pancreatitis, can recover after timely and effective treatment. However, in the case of multi-organ failure due to some chronic diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, severe infection or tumor, the disease usually has a long course and once it develops into multi-organ failure, the mortality rate is as high as 90%, and only 10% of patients can be saved by early interventional treatment.  Patients who develop multi-organ failure are not untreatable and should be seen in a timely manner to identify the primary disease and to provide symptomatic and causal treatment. Recovery depends on a variety of factors, including the underlying cause of organ failure, the number of organs, the extent of the disease, the time to resuscitate, and the means.