Post-transplant medications - Transplant Living (original) (raw)
One of the most important aspects of protecting your transplant is the medications prescribed to you. By weakening or reducing your immune system’s responses to foreign material, anti-rejection medications reduce your immune system’s ability to reject a transplanted organ. These drugs also allow you to maintain enough immunity to prevent overwhelming infection.
Darnell Waun, a nurse and liver transplant recipient, talks about how to manage your transplant medications.
Anti-rejection medications work in different phases of the immune response to minimize side effects and produce effective immunosuppression. Clinical immunosuppression usually occurs in three phases: induction, maintenance and anti-rejection.
Learn more about each of these post-transplant immunosuppressants: