Thank you so much for your 'informative response' Marina. To be honest....I'm sure that "I could die" is going to the extreme, however, I muct say that the Dr who gave me this grim diagnosis....did not think AT ALL that he was relaying this to someone who had no idea up until that point, that she even had this "condition".
I will definitely read up on this. It does scare me because I have been in the hospital quite frequently recently, and each visit is set in motion as a result of 'stomach' problems. Blood tests show abnormalities, and infection, but otherwise, they cannot pin point anything direct. Uktrasound only shows this medical condition that I've come to know as 'rare' and 'complicative'. I'm sure you are getting the jist of this.
Anyways....I dont want to be worse off before i get better. I am doing my own research. These docs here in this little town leave much to be desired. Thank you so very much again, for taking the time to respond. I love this site. It was the best "surf' i did yesterday :)
Happy Memorial Day!!!
My co-worker's daughter has this "horse shoe kidney" up until she mentioned it to me, I had never heard the term,
Now, you say that your doctor told you if the kidney fails you can die, although I'm not too familiar with the condition, I suspect that you can go on dialysis or get a kidney transplant to survive.
Ask your Dr lost of questions. Also do research on your own, google is a great place to start.
Here what I found on my research ( I only copied a small section, feel free to copy and paste the link so you can real it all)
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/441510-overview
The horseshoe kidney is the most common type of renal fusion anomaly. It consists of two distinct functioning kidneys on each side of the midline, connected at the lower poles by an isthmus of functioning renal parenchyma or fibrous tissue that crosses the midline of the body.
Frequency
Horseshoe kidney occurs in 1 per 400-800 live births. The true incidence probably lies somewhere between these two extremes. Horseshoe kidney is twice as common in males as in females. No genetic determinant is known, although it has been reported in identical twins and in siblings within the same family.