Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

SAN DIEGO — Health care providers and advocates must confront social disparities among patients with kidney disease to improve the standard of care, American Society of Nephrology President Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM, FASN, said.

Repeat kidney biopsies may help patients with lupus nephritis manage disease flares, particularly those who transition between proliferative and non-proliferative disease classes, data from a racially diverse study cohort show.

Rate of kidney replacement therapy for end-stage kidney disease due to primary glomerular disease varies between European countries and was highest for immunoglobulin A nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, study data show.

More than half of patients with diabetes undergoing kidney biopsy had additional findings other than diabetic kidney disease, according to published data from the Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Incident cardiovascular and thromboembolic events may be more closely linked to the severity of kidney disease than with glomerular disease subtype, according to results of a prospective study.

Urinary plasminogen and the ratio of measured to expected plasminogen may be independently linked to the risk of progression to end-stage kidney disease, data show.

PHILADELPHIA — There are 32 proteins that could be of interest to help predict focal segmental glomerulosclerosis recurrence in patients with kidney disease, according to presented data.

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis-attributed kidney failure may be linked with significant clinical and economic burdens, according to a recently published study.

PHILADELPHIA — Patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis had clinically meaningful and durable reduction in proteinuria with sparsentan treatment, according to phase 3 DUPLEX Trial data presented at ASN Kidney Week, here.

AUSTIN, Texas — A broad kidney gene panel will frequently help diagnosis renal syndromes more effectively than classical clinical review alone, researchers reported here.