Kidney Transplant Immunosuppressive Drugs

They regulate the immune response in various ways. Induction drugs can inhibit lymphocytes or prevent their activation and replication, such as the IL-2 receptor antagonist (IL-2RA) [23]. The main induction drugs in kidney transplantation are basiliximab, alemtuzumab and antithymocyte globulin [24].

Suppression of allograft rejection is central to successful organ transplantation; thus, immunosuppressive agents are crucial for successful allograft function. Immunosuppressive drugs are used for induction (intense immunosuppression in the initial days after transplantation), maintenance, and reversal of established rejection.

2 weeks ago - Immunosuppressants (anti-rejection medicines), are medicines that keep kidney transplants from being attacked by the immune system.

The medicines you will be taking after your transplant to keep your body from rejecting your new kidney are called immunosuppressants.

Immunosuppressants are the drugs taken around the time of, and following, an organ transplant. They are aimed at reducing the bodys ability to reject the transplant, and thus at increasing patient and graft survival and preventing acute and/or chronic rejection (while minimising associated ...

- After a kidney transplant, taking anti-rejection (immunosuppressant) medicines help protect your new transplanted kidney and keep your body from rejecting it. Anti-rejection medicines are taken for life and missing even a day can increase your ...