What is the treatment for FSGS?

FSGS treatment An angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor or an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) to lower your blood pressure and reduce protein in your urine. High cholesterol medication. Diuretic medications to help excrete salt and water, which can improve blood pressure and swelling.

Can FSGS be cured?

FSGS has no cure. The prognosis varies depending on the person. For some people, FSGS goes away on its own without treatment. For others, the disease continues for many years but does not get worse.

Is FSGS a rare disease?

Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a long name for what’s essentially a serious filtering problem. Without proper treatment, this rare kidney disease can lead to Nephrotic Syndrome, a disorder that causes too much protein to filter into urine.

How do you reverse FSGS?

High dose ACEI could reverse the spontaneously occurring FSGS lesions in aged MWF rats, linked to podocyte proliferation. These “podocytes” are postulated to result from regeneration from the parietal epithelium.

How serious is FSGS?

FSGS is a serious condition that can lead to kidney failure, for which the only treatment options are dialysis or kidney transplant. Treatment options for FSGS depend on the type you have.

How long do FSGS patients live?

If not treated, most patients with FSGS will eventually develop complete renal failure and require dialysis or a kidney transplant to survive. Even with treatment, many patients will still eventually require dialysis. How long this will take varies widely (2-20 years), and is difficult to predict.

Is FSGS fatal?

It is a scarring disease of the kidney that generally causes excess protein in the urine, nephrotic syndrome, and progressive kidney failure. It is not fatal, as dialysis and transplant would be the treatment of choice for FSGS that progresses to kidney failure.

Can you live a normal life with FSGS?

Can I lead a normal life with FSGS? The condition itself does not cause any specific symptoms or pain. Fluid retention or kidney failure may affect day-to-day life. Most patients with this disease, however, lead normal lives and go work, have children and so on.

Is FSGS painful?

The swelling is generally not painful. It may cause rapid weight gain. Changes in urine. You may have foamy or bubbly urine, caused by proteinuria.