Alternative Treatment For FSGS To Avoid Kidney Transplant

FSGS (Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis) is one common type of nephrotic syndrome in both children and adults. If left untreated, FSGS can slowly progress into end stage renal failure over years or the illness conditions can have rapid progression and worsening.

Conventional treatments for FSGS are antihypertensive drugs, hormones, immunosuppressive agents to treat proteinuria, hematuria, swelling, high blood pressure, etc. And when illness progressed into the final stage, dialysis and kidney transplant will be last choice and hope.

Since FSGS is not easy to be completely cured, that is why many patients have put their last hope on kidney transplant, but the transplanted kidneys will once again fail if the underlying cause of FSGS is not solved. It is not rare that many patients return to dialysis again years after kidney transplant or even less than 1 year.

So we can see that if there is an alternative treatment that can help protect residual kidney function, slow or even prevent further illness progression, kidney transplant can be delayed or avoided.

Immunotherapy is a new but promising treatment for FSGS and other refractory kidney diseases. It combines Chinese therapies and western therapies and make full use of both their advantages. It can not only reduce proteinuria, hematuria, swelling, lower high blood pressure but also can relieve inflammations, renal fibrosis and other pathogenesis that can cause scarring of renal tissues. When these problems are solved, further damages of renal tissues and renal functions will be blocked.

Immunotherapy can regulate renal disorders as well as immune disorders so as to improve immune functions and enhance the patient’s disease-resistance ability. For those that have developed drug-resistance to hormones and immunosuppressant and those that are preparing for dialysis or waiting for kidney transplant, immunotherapy is a good alternative treatment. Immunotherapy can help slow down illness progression, protect and improve kidney functions so as to help prevent or at least delay dialysis and kidney transplant.