Researchers at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have discovered an important molecular mechanism behind worsening kidney disease. In a disease such as FSGS, for example, the kidney filter membrane (also known as the slit diaphragm) is damaged, allowing proteins to leak into the urine. The initial damage causes further … Continue reading Scientists Discover Key to Podocyte Injury and Progressive Kidney Disease
Cancer Drug May Help Stop Recurring FSGS in Kidney Transplant Patients
Researchers at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, collaborating with a team of doctors and surgeons, have uncovered how the drug Rituximab, normally used to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia, also works to prevent FSGS from recurring in children and young adults with kidney transplants. The drug appears to bind … Continue reading Cancer Drug May Help Stop Recurring FSGS in Kidney Transplant Patients