Existing therapies for rejection of donor lungs can cause kidney damage. Just as some lung transplant patients celebrate the ability to breathe again, their immune systems begin to attack their new organ.
This inflammatory autoimmune activity, called rejection, can lead to failure of the transplanted lungs. Of the people who receive new lungs each year, 30 percent to 40 percent will suffer an episode of rejection within a year of transplant.
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