Doctors usually high doses of steroids to help people with this disease. Treatments include steroids and immunosuppressive drugs to help some people by decreasing proteinuria and improving kidney function. Unfortunately, there are bad side effects that accompany through the use of steroids. However, they help manage the disease. As they day the benefits outweigh the risks. Also, we must remember medications to help control the blood pressure, which can be significantly high.
Some people's body respond to the steroids. Others, the disease may advance to kidney failure within years. The progression to renal failure is based on the severity of the disease, which varies in different people. According to the, National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, it is believed that
1. No universal remedy has been found, and most patients with FSGS progress to total kidney failure over 5 to 20 years.
2. Some patients with an aggressive form of FSGS reach total kidney failure in 2 to 3 years.
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