Immunosuppressive Therapy in Heart Transplantation

Immunosuppressive Therapy in Heart Transplantation

Yan Li, April Yingfang Li, Ifeyinwa S. Nwankwo, Zhi Huang, Bin Zhang, Yun Lu, Yali Yao
ISBN13: 9781522520924|ISBN10: 1522520929|EISBN13: 9781522520931
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch012
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Li, Yan, et al. "Immunosuppressive Therapy in Heart Transplantation." Emerging Applications, Perspectives, and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Research, edited by Ashim Malhotra and Shivani Soni, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 212-231. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch012

APA

Li, Y., Li, A. Y., Nwankwo, I. S., Huang, Z., Zhang, B., Lu, Y., & Yao, Y. (2017). Immunosuppressive Therapy in Heart Transplantation. In A. Malhotra & S. Soni (Eds.), Emerging Applications, Perspectives, and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Research (pp. 212-231). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch012

Chicago

Li, Yan, et al. "Immunosuppressive Therapy in Heart Transplantation." In Emerging Applications, Perspectives, and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Research, edited by Ashim Malhotra and Shivani Soni, 212-231. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch012

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Abstract

Heart transplantation is a surgical procedure performed on patients with end-stage heart failure or other irreversible heart disease, Heart transplant prolongs the life of severe heart disease patients. Most of the receipts could survive more than 2-3 years, five-year survival rate could reach 70-80% with immunosuppressive therapy, rejection still an important problem after transplantation. Currently, traditional calcineurin inhibitors, antimetabolite agents, and steroids, wildly used after transplantation, the new generation of immunosuppressive medicines have been developed, and cell-based immunotherapy, as mesenchymal stem cell, myeloid-derived suppressor cells, dendritic cells, pluripotent cells and Treg cells are promising to be used in cellular immunotherapy in organ transplantation.

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