Developments in Immunosuppression The Secret to the Success of Organ Transplantation

摘要: For centuries, surgeons have operated on patients in order to remove diseased tissues or manage traumatic injuries. The objectives of practitioners such an extirpative discipline became minimize the surgical tissue loss adapt patient a regrettable but necessary disability. Only during twentieth century has focus surgery expanded from ablation disease and shifted toward restoration lost function by transplanting living normally functioning organs one individual another. success clinical transplantation been limited transplant surgeon’s understanding body’s immune response transplanted effective modulation this through suppression system. An history immunosuppression enables understand both limitations future organ transplantation.