MedPage Today: Sparsentan More Effective Than Current Standard of Care in Treating Rare Kidney Disease
Sparsentan is more effective at reducing proteinuria, a measure of severity of a rare kidney disease called focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), according to the results of a study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and reported at the American Society of Nephrology鈥檚 Kidney Week 2018.
The study鈥檚 principal investigator, Howard Trachtman, MD, professor in the 聽and division director of pediatric nephrology at Hassenfeld Children鈥檚 Hospital at 秘密研究所 Langone, reported that patients saw significant reductions in proteinuria after the eight-week trial compared with the current standard of care for this disease.
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