The Complications of Immunosuppression

Complications of Post-Transplant Immunosuppression

Transplantation is one of the revolutionary fields in modern medicine that has saved thou‐ sands of lives. The continuous refinement of surgical techniques and the availability of potent immunosuppressive drugs have made transplantation the most effective treatment option for patients with end stage organ failure. Over 25 000 organ transplants are performed in the USA each year and survival rat...

Gastrointestinal complications of transplant immunosuppression.

At a time when the judicious use of a broad range of immunosuppressive drugs has ensured excellent patient and organ survival rates after kidney transplantation, attention is focusing on strategies to minimize their side effects. Almost all immunosuppressive medications are associated with some form of gastrointestinal (GI) complication (1–6). The majority of these complications fall into one o...

Immunosuppression and infectious complications: A hemorrhagic dilemma

Introduction: Patients treated with immunosuppressive agents for autoimmune diseases are a unique patient population. Simultaneous management of an underlying autoimmune disease and of an opportunistic infection can present a therapeutic dilemma. Case Report: A 68-year-old female presented with signs and symptoms of vasculitis involving the gastrointestinal tract. After initiation of immunosupp...

Complications of Kidney Transplantation: Effects of Over-Immunosuppression

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...