All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August Reducing organ transplant side-effects Reducing organ transplant side-effects 09/08/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) A new research project aims to use personalised anti-rejection medication to reduce the health risks that organ transplant patients experience following surgery. Third-year PhD student Sarah Dart, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Medical School, said her research aimed to optimise immunosuppressant drug use, by analysing how the immune system responds to an organ following transplantation. ΓÇ£Developing personalised treatment strategies is important, because patients have unique immune responses to donated organs, regardless of whether they are a genetically identical match to the organ donor,ΓÇ¥ Ms Dart said. ΓÇ£After organ transplant surgery, patients undergo ongoing medical assessment and take immunosuppressant drugs for their lifetime. This leaves patients vulnerable to contracting infectious diseases, such as COVID, and at greater risk of developing cancer. ΓÇ£These severe side effects can be mitigate
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August Reducing organ transplant side-effects Reducing organ transplant side-effects 09/08/2021 | 3 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) A new research project aims to use personalised anti-rejection medication to reduce the health risks that organ transplant patients experience following surgery.
Third-year PhD student Sarah Dart, from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs Medical School, said her research aimed to optimise immunosuppressant drug use, by analysing how the immune system responds to an organ following transplantation.
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ΓÇ£Developing personalised treatment strategies is important, because patients have unique immune responses to donated organs, regardless of whether they are a genetically identical match to the organ donor,ΓÇ¥ Ms Dart said.
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ΓÇ£After organ transplant surgery, patients undergo ongoing medical assessment and take immunosuppressant drugs for their lifetime.
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This leaves patients vulnerable to contracting infectious diseases, such as COVID, and at greater risk of developing cancer.
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