FSGS is Chronic Nephritis in Kidney

Many people are not familiar with FSGS and they know nothing about FSGS but a type of nephritis. It is the abbreviation of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis which is very common in children and adult. In order to treat FSGS, we must know its own characteristics and which treatment is suitable for it.

What is FSGS after all?

Kidney is the main organ to filter the blood and form urine. How to achieve that? In kidneys, there are more than two million glomeruli which are like numerous griddles to help kidney to filter blood. If most of the glomeruli are health, kidneys can function well. So the end waste products and excessive water can be discharged through the filtration of griddles.

However, FSGS means that less than 50% of glomeruli have been destroyed, which is a kind of nephritis. Besides, many kidney tissues have been dead and turned into scars in kidneys. The scars seem that on the skin. There will be no blood or oxygen supplied to the scars. So most part of kidneys has no blood vessels and cannot form urine. In this way, many toxic substances cannot be removed from the body.

What are the common symptoms of FSGS?

FSGS is considered as a type of nephritis which often occurs in children and young people. And males have more risk to suffer FSGS than females. More than two thirds patients have a large amount of proteinuria and severe swelling. Their 24 hours proteinuria is between 1g to 30g. While, more than 50% of patients have hematuria and microscopic hematuria presents in most cases. FSGS develops very quickly and usually patients would go into renal failure or ESRF in one or two years. So patients should receive an effective treatment in the early stage in order to prevent the serious condition.