People with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD), the last stage of kidney failure, are very sick. When kidneys aren’t doing what their body needs them to, people struggle with chronic fatigue, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Without treatment, people with ESRD will die.
People in kidney failure have two treatment options: dialysis or a kidney transplant. These two options are treatments, not a cure. Because over 100,000 individuals are waiting for a kidney transplant, many must go on dialysis while waiting for a kidney to become available.