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Fast facts about pediatric kidney disease

In Manitoba, approximately 700 children per year are admitted to hospital with various forms of kidney disease.

A small number of them will experience progressive kidney failure and will require dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive.

Children with end-stage kidney failure struggle with complications from kidney failure such as anemia, bone problems, high blood pressure and heart disease, nausea with poor appetite, and growth problems.

Most children are eligible to receive a kidney transplant, and in those cases it can dramatically improve their health and long-term survival.

Living with a kidney transplant requires lifelong treatment with medications to prevent kidney transplant rejection.

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