Can you kindly elaborate on the statistics of children diagnozed with a pelvic, horseshoe kidney? how many have a normal life? How many suffer from minor symptoms such as stone kidney? And how many have to undergo dialysis / kidney transplant, with a serious damage to their normal life quality?
HelloThanks for query. The incidence of Horse shoe kidney is estimated to be 1 in 500 child Chat Doctor. As regards your other queries I would state that most of the individuals with horseshoe kidney have symptoms like pain in abdomen.getting frequent UTI and stone formation. As regards need for dialysis if taken cared of properly there are very fewer chances of these kidneys going into chronic renal failure and CKD requiring dialysis .or transplant, and they can have normal quality of life like every other normal person.