A client who has undergone a liver transplant 7 weeks ago has developed the following assessment data: ALT/AST elevation; jaundice of skin and sclera; weight gain with increase in abdominal circumference; and low-grade fever. The nurse suspects:
A) Hyperacute graft rejection
B) Acute graft rejection
C) Chronic rejection
D) Atherosclerosis of arteries of the liver
Ans: B
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Allograph rejection is caused by tissue incompatibility that causes the recipient immune cells to attack and destroy the donor cells. The opposite, graft versus host disease, is characterized by recipient immune cells being destroyed by the donor cells because the recipient cells are recognized by the donor cells as foreign.
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