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What is rejection?

April 26, 2017rejection

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What is rejection?

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If the immune system is able to attack the transplanted heart, it is called rejection. Rejection must be detected and treated quickly to prevent damage to the transplanted heart. After a transplant, you are given the symptoms of rejection to look for and appointments are scheduled regularly with your doctor for checkups and myocardial biopsies to help detect rejection. What are immunosuppressive drugs? To help prevent transplant failure, heart transplant recipients are prescribed immunosuppressive drugs. These drugs inhibit the body’s immune system from identifying the new organ as foreign. Transplantation has become so successful in recent years because of the development of new, more effective drugs that prevent rejection by the body of donated organs.

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Rejection is one of the most important concerns for renal transplant recipients. Acute rejection most commonly occurs within the first three months after transplantation, but it can also occur many months or years after transplantation.