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Title: A young girl requires a liver transplant due to failure of her liver to function Post by: barry on Apr 6, 2012 A young girl requires a liver transplant due to failure of her liver to function. What is required for her to have a good prognosis and why?
Title: Re: A young girl requires a liver transplant due to failure of her liver to function Post by: star on Apr 15, 2012 The ABO and other blood group antigens of the donor and recipient must be determined. Next, donor and recipient tissues (MHC groups) are matched as closely as possible. Following surgery she must receive immunosuppressive therapy to keep her body from rejecting the new liver as foreign tissue.
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