Sentences with phrase «recipients immunosuppressant»

Following a tissue graft transplant — such as that of the face, hand, arm or leg — it is standard for doctors to immediately give transplant recipients immunosuppressant drugs to prevent their body's immune system from rejecting and attacking the new body part.

Not exact matches

Sutures across the implanted cornea temporarily held it in place, and the recipients were put on immunosuppressant drugs for six weeks to prevent it being rejected.

Although immune tolerance can occur — in rare cases, transplant recipients who stop taking immunosuppressants have not rejected their foreign organs — researchers don't have a clear picture of what is happening at the molecular and cellular levels to allow this to happen.

Engineered new tissues can not only help patients avoid the need for an organ donation, but also the need for the recipient to take immunosuppressant drugs.

Working first in people with perfectly immune - matched siblings and then with partially mismatched donor - recipient pairs, the researchers showed that the majority of individuals could achieve stable kidney function and successfully wean off of their immunosuppressants with few problems — in one case for up to nine years.

Titus says that the way the cells were developed means recipients don't need immunosuppressants.

Of the eight recipients, five were completely off immunosuppressants, with no sign of GVHD, within a year, and their kidneys have continued to function well for an additional 18 months.

In the past, the virus usually only developed into brain disease in individuals with suppressed immune systems, such as AIDS patients and organ transplant recipients on immunosuppressant medications.

Immunosuppressants are introduced into the recipient's body to impede organ rejection, but immunosuppressive therapy can increase the risk of infection and other harmful conditions.