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tissue transplanted from part of the body to part of your genital area.
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∙ 15y agotissue transplanted from part of the body to part of your genital area.
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How effective are immunosuppressants in treating polymyositis?
Immunosuppressants can improve strength, although not all patients respond, and relapses may occur.
How often does rejection occur in liver transplantations?
In spite of immunosuppressants, rejection occurs most of the time and requires additional medication.
What can be injected to prevent anaphlylactic shock?
You can use histamine antagonists and/or immunosuppressants, since anaphylactic shock is just an overreaction of the immune system.
Transplants in 1950?
They happened, but no immunosuppressants were available. So the transplants generally failed. Here's a timeline: http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/in-or-out/transplant-timeline.aspx
What are anti-rejection drugs used to treat?
Anti-rejection drugs, which are also called immunosuppressants, help to suppress the immune system's response to a new organ.
What is the treatment for Schilder's disease?
Treatments are aimed at slowing the inexorable course of the disease, and are similar to treatments used for multiple sclerosis, such as high dose steroids, beta interferon, and immunosuppressants.
What medication reduces the body's normal immune response?
Immunosuppressant: An agent that can suppress or prevent the immune response. Immunosuppressants are used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ and to treat autoimmune diseases such as psoriasis,rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn's disease. Some treatments for cancer act as immunosuppressants.
DO they have special medicines for the organ transplant?
Many. They have special fluids which are flushed through the organs whilst they are being removed from the donor, to enable them to stay 'fresh' for longer. Also, they have a category of medicines called "immunosuppressants", which 99.9% of all organ recipients will use (permenently) after transplant. They are designed to prevent the recipients' antibodies from attacking the donated organ. This happens since the donated organ has different DNA to the recipient's body (unless the organ has been taken from a recipient's identical twin); when you implant different DNA into a person's body, the bodies' natural response is to try to 'kill it off', in a similar way to how a person's immune system kills of cold and 'flu germs. This reaction is called 'rejection', which can lead to failure of the transplanted organ. However 'immunosuppressants' are designed to stop organ rejection from happening, by making the bodies immune system slightly less efficient, so that it doesn't notice the new DNA. Immunosuppressants are quite effective at this.
Can a person live after liver transplant if they take no immunosuppresents?
No. The only case would be that of identical twins, but even that would be risky. The immunosuppressants allow the body to "accept" the transplant as its' own. The best age for a good result is a young adult. You will know if all is going well after a year.
What are some chronic ophthalmic conditions?
Chronic opthalmic conditions include glaucoma, cataracts, uveitis, and retinitis. Glaucoma can be treated with a variety of pharmacologic agents depending on if its wide-angle or closed-angle, acute or chronic. Inflammation and infections can be treated with antibiotics and immunosuppressants, respectively. Cataracts can be surgically corrected.
What are some risks of having a transplant?
If the donors tissue doesn't match yours, your bodies immune system sees the new organ as a threat and destroys it. After an organ transplant, you will need to take anti rejection medicines, or immunosuppressants, for as long as you have the donor organ. Because your immune system will try to destroy the new organ, anti rejection medicines are needed to decrease your immune system's response so the new organ stays healthy.
What is clyclosporine?
Cyclosporine is an immunosuppressant than is given to prevent rejection after organ transplantiation It is also used for rhuematoid Arthritis and certain types of psoriasis.
