Kidney Transplants Without Lifetime On Immunosuppressive Drugs In Sight
January 25th, 2008 by 
Barry - Admin BioPharmArena
The possibility of having a kidney transplant without spending a lifetime on immunosuppressive drugs has come a step or two closer with the announcement this week of two studies using two new techniques to discourage rejection of the donor organ.
The studies are published in today’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 24th January.
In the first study which was carried out by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, five patients with end stage kidney disease received combined bone marrow and kidney transplants from relatives that did not match. This was done in three stages. First their immune system was partly inactivated, then they were given a bone marrow graft from the donor, and then they received the donor’s kidney.
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