How many years can a patient with renal atrophy live should be judged with the specific condition of the patient and the treatment. There are no authoritative references to show how many years patients with renal atrophy can live, usually they can live for more than ten years, decades, or even can have no significant difference with normal people.
If the kidney is atrophic unilaterally, while the other side of the kidney function is basically normal, and the function of the atrophic side of the kidney can be compensated by the normal kidney, then the patient’s overall kidney function may be normal. The patient may live as long as a normal person.
If the patient has bilateral renal atrophy due to renal parenchymal disease or renal vascular disease, it will lead to impaired renal function. Reasonable treatment needs to be chosen according to the stage of renal disease. Even if patients are treated with dialysis, life expectancy can still be ten years or longer. However, some diseases may affect the survival time, such as malignant hypertension and diabetic nephropathy.
Patients with renal atrophy are advised to follow the doctor’s prescription for treatment to slow down the progress of the disease.