What is the life expectancy with kidney failure and spinal tumor?
Patient: Hi, my friend has klippel feil syndrome with a lot of complications including ongoing acute kidney failure, heart abnormalities, spinal tumor, and water retention issues.  Im afraid her life will be cut short if the doctors cant do something, she is only 40.  Please help Doctor: Hi,Thanks for writing in.1. The ongoing kidney failure requires to be analyzed from the stage of failure she is in. If it is stage 1 or 2 then she can maintain kidney functions for few years. Since she is 40 years old, a renal transplant might be thought of but this needs to be discussion with her other health conditions.2. Heart abnormalities are important to be corrected. There can be heart abnormalities due to valve defects or electrical rhythm disturbances. Some of these might be treated with medicines and when there is severe disease then surgical treatment might be suggested depending on the cause of heart failure.3. Spinal tumor must be investigated in detail to know if that is a benign or malignant tumor and its location. Tumors localized to a particular area and causing pressure symptoms need to be surgically operated for treatment of associated discomfort. Water retention might be due to kidney or heart disorder requiring treatment. Please do not worry.