AQA B3- Kidney Transplant Rejection
- Created by: Martha
- Created on: 15-05-11 09:42
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- Advantages of transplant over dialysis:
- Recipients aren't required to follow a restricted diet
- Don't have to attend regular dialysis sessions
- More freedom- are able to travel without making medical arrangements abroad
- Less costly (is not an ongoing treatment like dialysis)
- Disadvantages:
- Shortage of eligible donors
- Waiting lists for recipients can last for years
- Dialysis is more readily available
- Donor must have a relatively close tissue match to recipent
- Risk of rejection
- Immunosuppressant drugs
- Irradiation of bone marrow
- Both of these are used to prevent the patient's own immune system from destroying the donated kidney
- They also leave the patient vulnerable to disease
- Antibodies found…
- Shortage of eligible donors
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