What Are The Treatments For Anemia Caused By FSGS
FSGS is a kidney disease that can cause patient to have kidney damage gradually, and as the progression of kidney damage, patient can have many symptoms, among which anemia is very common. And what are the treatments for anemia caused by FSGS?
Kidney has the function of excreting hormones, and hemopoietin is an important hormone that is excreted by kidney. For patient who has severe kidney failure, this function will be damaged to some extent, so the excretion of hemopoietin will decrease, and then the producing of red cells will also reduce, so patient may have anemia.
In general, the treatments for FSGS can be divided into three aspects.
Medicines
For most patient, they should take medicines to treat their anemia. Some medicines are often used in treating this problem, like androgen, cobalt chloride, etc. Besides, rHuEpo is also a common and effective medicine in treating renal anemia. And for patients whose anemia is caused by the shortage of amino acid, or other nutrients that are necessary in the producing of red cells, patients will need to supply these substances in his treatment.
Transfusion
This is also a effective method to treat patient’s renal anemia. Patients have strong tolerance to anemia even for patients who is in the end stage of kidney failure. But for patient who has some severe conditions, like heart failure, cerebral hemorrhage, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, etc, he will need transfusion to cope with his problem, Which is very helpful.
Dialysis is also a common method to relieve patient’s anemia. Except for the decrease of red cells, the shrinkage of red cells’ living time is another reason that can aggravate patient’s anemia, which is caused by the accumulation of toxins and wastes in blood. Thereby, to reduce these harmful substances in blood, dialysis will be needed.
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