FSGS Recurrence Collaboration: Report of a Symposium.

This document is a report of a symposium on FSGS recurrence, a kidney disease characterized by podocyte injury and depletion. The report discusses the incidence of FSGS across different age groups and its contribution to nephrotic syndrome cases. It highlights the varying treatment protocols and the ongoing genetic studies to understand the disease. The text also explores different approaches and technologies used to study FSGS, including flow cytometric analysis, single-cell technologies, proteomic analysis, and the development of organoids and glomerular spheroids as models. The document emphasizes the need for further research and the challenges in conducting clinical trials for patients with recurrent FSGS. It also mentions the RESOLVE study as an example of collaborative efforts in gathering data on the disease. The potential of functional tools like human organoids in pre-clinical research is also discussed. [Extracted from the article]