| >1. What is the % of the graft success/rejection?
Why should there be any chance of rejection?
I am in danger of rejection only because the heart that I currently use
came from someone else. Had it come form an identical twin I would not
have to suppress my immune system to stop the rejection. As the bone
graft is coming from the same person as it is going to, why should the
immune system try to reject it?
>2. What are the symptoms of rejection?
The rejected material is destroyed by the immune system and recycled
within the body. So effectively it disappears.
>3. In what time period the rejection may happen?
Well if it is going to happen it will usually start within the first
six months.
>4. What has to be done in order to minimise risks of rejection?
Load her to the eyeballs with corticosteroids and cyclosporine. Mind
you this will ruin her looks, leave her wide open to infection, give
her high blood pressure, a tremor in her hands, deplete her body of
Nicotinamide and give her a mercurial temper.
>We are going to see the operating doctor next week with our list of
>questions, but he is very difficult to get the complete info from.
Ask the questions and if he declines to answer point out to him that
you are his customer and you pay his rather extensive salary. You may
also add the point that if you treated your customers like he treats
his you would be looking for work.
I have taken this line several times including a run in with a
professor of surgery, accompanied by his minions, who unadvisedly took
his temper out on me. It works every time. Doctors are not superior
beings they are mere mortals, I know I've lived with one for over 20
years.
Jamie.
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