Is FSGS With 20% Kidney Functions Fatal

For FSGS patients with 20% kidney functions, their illness conditions have developed into stage 4, therefore effective and proper treatment should be sought to prevent its further progression into the final stage because complete renal failure can be fatal.

If FSGS with 20% kidney functions can be well controlled and further progression is prevented, patients can stay in this stage for many years. If risk factors are well prevented and treated and kidney functions can be improved, FSGS patient’s life will not be threatened.

Risk factors for FSGS patients

Clinical symptoms such as high blood pressure, proteinuria, hyperlipidemia can all speed up glomerular sclerosis and loss of kidney functions. The survival rate after 10 years for those that have massive proteinuria is only 45%. If 24-h urine protein is more than 10g and the patient also has serious hyperlipidemia, kidney functions can experience rapid decline and the prognosis is very poor. If proteinuria can be well controlled, the survival rate can be increased to 90%.

Recurrent infections and thromboembolism can affect the prognosis of FSGS. Infection is the major cause of relapse and it can even cause death, therefore enough attention should be paid. Thromboembolism can increase the risk of cardiovascular complications which are great threaten to FSGS patient’s life.

Well control of these risk factors can help stabilize illness conditions and preserve residual kidney functions.

How to improve kidney functions?

To see improvements of illness conditions and enhancement kidney functions, patients need to receive effective treatment. Stage 4 FSGS is very crucial for the treatment or the disease will continue to develop into more advanced stage and require dialysis or kidney transplant to sustain life.

Steroids, cytotoxic drugs, immunosuppressants, Chinese medicines, Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, immunotherapy, plasma exchange, immune adsorption are available treatments for FSGS patients with 20% kidney functions. According to the patient’s specific illness and physical condition, different treatments will be adopted to help recover part of kidney functions so that to prevent fatal renal damages and prolong the patient’s life.