Textbook of Liver Transplantation - A Multidisciplinary Approach
Textbook of Liver Transplantation - A Multidisciplinary Approach
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肝移植教科书 - 多学科方法
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-82930-8_45
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2022
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Lim T
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Lim T
Whilst advances in surgical techniques and immunosuppression therapy (IST) regimens have led to improved graft and patient survival in liver transplantation (LT), long-term immunosuppression is still associated with significant morbidity and mortality. These include increased risk of malignancy, infection, metabolic disorders and chronic kidney disease, as well as high costs associated to these therapies and required drug monitoring. As a result, transplant clinicians have attempted to achieve complete discontinuation of immunosuppression without development of rejection, termed “operational tolerance” (OT). LT constitutes a unique clinical setting to investigate the mechanisms of allograft tolerance, given that it is the only transplant modality in which substantial proportion of recipients spontaneously develop tolerance. Here, we discuss the various strategies that have been studied to achieve tolerance.