most common diseases that require a pancreas or liver transplant - CORRECT
ANSWER pancreas=Type 1 diabetes. Liver= alcohol with liver changes.
... [Show More] Cholestasis.
Chronic hepatitis. Genetic diseases. Hepatocellular carcinoma <5cm accompanied by
cirrhosis. Metabolic disease.
most common diseases that require a kidney transplant - CORRECT ANSWER
polycstic kidney disease, primary glomerulonephritis, HIV assoc nephropathy;
glomerulonephritis; hypertension; systemic lupus; systemic and genetic diseases
most common diseases that require a intestine transplant - CORRECT ANSWER colon
excretes mainly water and can be replacedwith colostomy bag. May replace small
bowel if functional failure like unable to absorb nutrients from TPN or related to motility.
Structural disease such as crohn's, necrotizing enterocolitis; mesenteric thrombosis or
stenosis.
most common diseases that require a heart transplant - CORRECT ANSWER
congentital heart conditions. CHF with class 3-4 symtoms or severe o2 dependence.
End-stage heart disease. Heart valve disease. Myocarditis. Myxomas (heart tumor).
Restrictive, dilated or ischemic cardiomyopathy. Life-threatening arrhythmias.
main cause for transplant organ rejection - CORRECT ANSWER from white blood cells
which unable to attack the organ as a whole attack individual cells that comprise the
organ tissue which causes tissue necrosis or newly transplanted organ. Proper HLA
matching can help avoid this.
Define hyperacute, acute and chronic rejection with transplanted organs. List common
immunosuppresive drugs. - CORRECT ANSWER hyperacute= wrong ABO Rh ad
recipients blood clots. Must be immediately remove to prevent death from shock.
Acute=days to months after organ transplant as a result of T-cells responding to foreign
proteins from donor organ. Immunosuppressive meds help prevent acute rejection. 60%
of kidney and liver recipients develop acute rejection. chronic rejection usually aoccurs
over years and immunosuppresive therapy is usually of no help once it has developed.
most frequent causes of post-transplant occult fever - CORRECT ANSWER occult fever
is elevated temperature but cause is unknown. Month1 is usually due to complication
from surgery itself such as urinary cath infection or could be allograft rejection .
Months2-6=viral infections such as CMV, post transplant lymphofroliferative disorder
and kaposis sarcoma. more than 6 months= opportunistic infections like pnemonia, UTI,
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