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What are the risks of lung transplants?
What are the complications of a lung transplant? What must a the patient understand about the procedure? What are the survivabilty rates?
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Hello @m3po.
A lung transplant can greatly help extend lifespan and improve quality of life. The first year after the transplant is most critical for this is when complications may arise.
Recently, short-term survival from lung transplant has greatly improved. Figures in 2005 show that more than 83% of patient survive the first year, nearly 60% survive 3 years, and more 43% survive 5 years.
However, complications may arise. These are rejection and infections. There is a tendency for the immune system to regard this new lung as foreign object therefore, it will create antibodies against it causing the body to reject the new organ.
Doctor prescribes medicines called immunosuppresesants to suppress the immune system. These medicines have to be taken for the rest of the person's life.
In the first six months, rejection is mot common. Rejection also develop slowly or suddenly.
These are the signs and symptoms of rejection:
*fever and flu-like symptoms
*chest congestion
*cough
*shortness of breath
*pain in the area around the lung
*general feeling of unwell
The medicines that are prescribed to prevent lung rejection may cause the immune system to get weak which result for risks of getting infection.
Other risk is the side effects of taking immunosuppressant that cause diabetes, kidney damage and osteoporosis and also increase risk of cancer.
source:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/lungtxp/lungtxp_risk.html
A lung transplant can greatly help extend lifespan and improve quality of life. The first year after the transplant is most critical for this is when complications may arise.
Recently, short-term survival from lung transplant has greatly improved. Figures in 2005 show that more than 83% of patient survive the first year, nearly 60% survive 3 years, and more 43% survive 5 years.
However, complications may arise. These are rejection and infections. There is a tendency for the immune system to regard this new lung as foreign object therefore, it will create antibodies against it causing the body to reject the new organ.
Doctor prescribes medicines called immunosuppresesants to suppress the immune system. These medicines have to be taken for the rest of the person's life.
In the first six months, rejection is mot common. Rejection also develop slowly or suddenly.
These are the signs and symptoms of rejection:
*fever and flu-like symptoms
*chest congestion
*cough
*shortness of breath
*pain in the area around the lung
*general feeling of unwell
The medicines that are prescribed to prevent lung rejection may cause the immune system to get weak which result for risks of getting infection.
Other risk is the side effects of taking immunosuppressant that cause diabetes, kidney damage and osteoporosis and also increase risk of cancer.
source:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/lungtxp/lungtxp_risk.html
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