For patients undergoing kidney transplantation, there are many risks from both within the body and from external threats that may result in rejection, injury, or failure of the graft and jeopardize patient outcomes. These risks relate to many different biological pathways and systems at play within our bodies. The immune system is the most well recognized risk. Because it is designed to monitor and attack invading foreign elements to protect the body, it is not able to distinguish that the transplanted kidney is there to help...
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