which are increasingly precious due to rising demand amid an organ-shortage crisis. The study will publish Friday (Sept. 8) in the journal Science. Rejection can occur at any time after a transplant — ...

Liver transplant is a lifesaving surgery, but a significant number of patients experience organ rejection or other ...

After an organ transplant, you will need to take immunosuppressant (anti-rejection) drugs. These drugs help prevent your immune system from attacking ("rejecting") the donor organ. Typically ...

Liver transplant is a lifesaving surgery, but a significant number of patients experience organ rejection or other ...

The tiny, paper-thin implant appears to provide early, accurate, real-time warning of organ rejection, according to a new study. The ultrathin soft implant sits directly on a transplanted kidney ...

In addition to being faster and less invasive than a traditional tissue biopsy, the blood test is also potentially more ...

ScienceAlert says previous methods only checked biomarkers that only applied to select organ rejection types. Further research may help medical professionals discern between organ rejection types ...

Biopsies are an invasive procedure typically ordered when a patient presents organ rejection symptoms such as fever, which signal advancing damage. The blood tests are designed for routine ...

ScienceAlert says previous methods only checked biomarkers that only applied to select organ rejection types. READ: The Future of Cardiology: 3D Printed Heart Tissue Further research may help ...

To understand how and why organ rejection after transplantation happens it is important to understand not only the organ transplant process, but also some essential information about the immune ...

Consequently, "the body's protective mechanism is to reject the [donated] organ because it is foreign," Kadambi added. Transplant patients are usually prescribed immunosuppressive drugs ...