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What are the advantages of artificial joints over transplant joints?
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No rejection: In principle replacement of joints with a deceased donor source is logical. However, the larger the tissue, the more difficult to create adequate blood supply, and foreign tissue (not from an identical twin) is subject to the rejection response requiring anti-rejection drugs. Smaller grafts, bone, cartilage, cornea don't require a significant blood supply and are at less risk for rejection.
Answered 9/28/2016
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