This patient has had two previous kidney transplants. What are the potential sources for a donor kidney? How is rejection prevented after a kidney transplant? What does it mean when the physician states she is experiencing acute rejection?
What will be an ideal response?
Kidney transplantation is classified as a deceased-donor or living-donor transplantation. Living-donor transplants are either genetically related or non-related transplants.
Rejection is prevented with a combination of medications that assist to suppress the immune system including: Imuran, Simulect, corticosteroids, muromonab-CD3, CellCept, cyclosporin, Rapamune, Prograf, immunoglobulins, and monoclonal antibodies.
Acute rejection indicates that the recipient's signs and symptoms demonstrate the reduced function of the kidney and immune attack against it.
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