Transplant Rejection
Current as of: December 12, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & W. Thomas London, MD – Internal Medicine, Hepatology
A transplant rejection is the body’s destruction of a newly introduced organ or tissue. A person’s immune system does not recognize the cells of the transplanted material, which triggers it into action to kill the transplanted tissues. The immune system’s response eventually makes the organ or tissue unable to function…