Guide To The Conditions Prednisone Treats

Prevent Organ Rejection

Organ rejection is a process that occurs in a patient where their immune system recognizes a donor organ as being foreign and attempts to eliminate its tissues. Some degree of organ rejection occurs in every patient who receives a donor organ transplant. The clinical significance of that degree of rejection is dependent upon individual circumstances. Acute rejection is sudden and often forced back into a state of remission through the use of medications to suppress the immune system. Chronic rejection can develop as a result of several episodes of acute rejection. Organ rejection produces symptoms such as swelling, weight gain, chills, nausea, diarrhea, headache, body aches, tiredness, fever, pain over the transplant site, and less urine expulsion. Patients who have had an organ transplant need to take several medications every day to maintain proper clinical immunosuppression. Clinical immunosuppression includes the use of prednisone to help stop the immune system components from attacking the donor organ.

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