This is one of my patients' concern. My answer is as follows:
Dear sir, please do not worry. I will explain it for you in detail.
Firstly, kidney transplant can really solve the kidney disease problem for the time being. However, if we have another choice, we should consider for kidney transplant has many advantages.
1. The donated kidney is hard to find and even if we had a donated kidney, we should consider whether it matches the patients who are ready to take kidney transplant.
2. Kidney transplant has risk, which is known to all of us. 3. The life expectancy of transplanted kidney is also limited. Some years later, the transplanted kidney will also fail to work and we should find another kidney or another therapy.
And there are many information about treatment: Hot Compress Therapy for Kidney Disease,Acupuncture for Kidney Disease,Foot Bath for Kidney Disease and Herbal Medicine Treats Kidney Disease
Secondly, considering the effects of kidney transplantation, we would like to introduce a new therapy: immunotherapy, which is on the basis that Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is caused by immune disorder.
When Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) patients are in stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease(CKD) and GFR has decreased to 24, we still have hope to recover. In immunotherapy, the first treatment step is immune clearance, through which, a lot of immune complex is cleared away. The methods are such as blood dialysis, blood filtration, plasma exchange, etc. The second treatment step is immune adjustment and immune protection, in which, we have both Chinese medicine and western medicine. For example, Micro-Chinese Medicine can help create a clean environment, repair the damaged intrinsic cells at the same time. In addition, Immunotherapy is applied, which can differentiate into intrinsic cells and rebuild renal structure.
