When Should FSGS Patients Require Dialysis or Kidney Transplant

In the clinic, FSGS is not easy to treat. When FSGS patients do not respond to western medicines like immunosuppressive agents well, the condition will develop kidney failure with a fast speed. Dialysis or kidney transplant will be required in the near future at kidney failure stage. However, when should FSGS patients require dialysis or kidney transplant?

When should FSGS patients require dialysis treatment?

When should dialysis start depends on lab tests and patients’s specific symptoms. When, serum creatinine is more than 707.2umol/L (8mg/dl); for patients with diabetes, when serum creatinine is more than 530.4umol/L (6mg/dl); when serum potassium level exceeds 6.5mmol/L; when water-sodium retention, heart failure or uremic pericarditis happens; when there have severe nausea, vomiting or fatigue, FSGS patients are recommended to take dialysis treatment.

When should FSGS patients require kidney transplant?

Well, when nearly all of the renal function is lost, kidney transplant will be needed. Dialysis treatment is unable to stop the continue loss in kidney function, and we can know this from the decreased urine output. As a matter of fact, many dialysis patients have already been on transplant list. However, waiting for a donor may take years, and some patients are not even suitable to receive a kidney transplant.

In addition to kidney transplant, any new FSGS treatment?

Experts in Beijing Tongshantang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine would like to say kidney transplant will not be a good choice for FSGS patients, that is because FSGS has a high relapse rate after transplant in the clinic, and this relapse rate can even reach up to 50%. After the new kidney is damaged, FSGS patients have to take dialysis again or receive another kidney transplant.

Nowadays, Chinese medicine therapies are used in the clinic to help treat FSGS from the root with a series of special functions to repair kidney damage, recover renal function and adjust the abnormal immune system. So do not delay your condition any more. You can still expect a normal life without dialysis and kidney transplant. Welcomed to tell us more about your condition with the way you prefer, then our experts will send you how Chinese medicine therapies treat your condition.