organ rejection
Body attacks graft
Organ rejection is the immune system's attack on a transplanted organ, recognizing it as foreign tissue.
The body's defenses treat the new kidney, heart, or liver as an invader to be destroyed.
Recipients take immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection: The patient showed signs of organ rejection within weeks of the transplant.
Rejection can be acute or chronic.
- tissue typingDetermining transplant compatibility
- corticosteroidsInflammation-suppressing steroid medications
- antibodiesProteins targeting pathogens
- immune responseBody fighting foreign threats
- antigensImmunity-triggering foreign substances
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- Transplant Complicationsimmunosuppression
- transplant immunityallograft, immunosuppression, donor matching, tissue matching, tissue typing
- transplant rejection
- transplantsliver transplant, bone marrow transplant, kidney transplant, heart transplant, stem cell transplant
- mismatchesmismatch, wrong fit, misfit, incompatibility, wrong size
- immunologyimmune system, immune response, antibodies, antigens, immunity