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A member asked:
I saw on cnn a lady who received an organ transplant but it was altered before transplanting to avoid rejection, no drugs needed. how's that possible?
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Trsplt- No immunosup: Please see the references below. Some protocols are developing to wean people off immunosupression which was unheard of before,I ma not sure if this is what you are referring to: http://www.aafp.org/afp/2008/0101/p65.html http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa071074 Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Nov 19;110(47):19054-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1317561110. Epub 2013 Oct 28
Answered 1/30/2015
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