How to Avoid Kidney Transplant for FSGS Patients
FSGS causes scarring to develop in kidneys. If a large part of kidney functioning tissues are damaged, patients may be suggested to do kidney transplant. However, not all patients want to accept this surgery. Can FSGS patients avoid kidney transplant?
Kidney transplant and FSGS kidney disease
Generally, patients are suggested to prepare for kidney transplant, when their kidney function is less than 20%. A successful kidney transplant surgery can provide a brand new life for patients with FSGS kidney disease. However, the recurrent incidence of FSGS in transplanted kidney is high, so these patients may find FSGS appears after kidney transplant again.
Alternative therapies to kidney transplant with FSGS
If patients still have certain kidney function, some therapies are indeed helpful to treat FSGS effectively.
- Dialysis: It is the most conventional therapy to maintain patients' basic life, because it can remove waste products, toxins and fluid from the blood. However, as time goes on, dialysis may cause more and more side effects and affect patients' life quality largely.
- Blood Purification: With the combination of immune adsorption, hemofiltration, plasma exchange, CRRT, and so on. Compared with dialysis, it can cleanse the blood more thoroughly and increase patients' life quality to some extent.
- Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy: As one innovation of traditional Chinese medicine, this external application of Chinese medicine can help expand blood vessels, fight inflammation and coagulation, and degrade extracellular matrix. These therapeutic effects can help repair damaged kidney cells and improve patients' kidney function.
- Clear Blood Pollution Therapy: This therapy can both cleanse the blood and reverse kidney damage. As long as blood flow into kidneys is normalized, inherent kidney cells can get enough nutrition. Accordingly, their kidney function increases obviously.
Different treatments are suitable for different patients. Email your test report or illness description to kidneyservice@hotmail.com. We are glad to help.
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