Immunosuppressant

A steroid, it's classed as an immunosuppressant, which is a good thing if you need it to suppress an autoimmune disease, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, in which your body starts attacking its own tissues. ❋ [email protected] ( (2010)

Today, thanks to immunosuppressant drugs, donors and recipients require little more than compatible blood types. ❋ Virginia Postrel (2011)

And it was Spanish surgeons who performed the first transplant of a windpipe manufactured from a patient's own stem cells, which meant that the recipient, Claudia Castillo, 30, escaped a lifetime of immunosuppressant drugs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You (and I) cannot donate to ANY RH – recipient without additional complications and/or immunosuppressant drugs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unlike dialysis patients, transplant recipients can live normal lives, with few restrictions besides the need for immunosuppressant drugs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She also advised people to seek professional guidance as Andrographis has potential interactions with anticoagulant, antihypertensive, immunosuppressant and hypoglycemic drugs. ❋ Dr. Richard Palmquist (2012)

It also sells in the U.S. copies of ulcer drug Prevacid and immunosuppressant Prograf--on which it enjoys good profit as there aren't too many competitors to push prices down. ❋ Rumman Ahmed (2011)

Emily must be on immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of her life. ❋ Jo Ann Greenwald (2011)

Symptoms such as inflammation, pain and tissue damage are typically treated with steroids and immunosuppressant therapies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Swiss pharmaceutical Sandoz discovered the immunosuppressant cyclosporin from the insect-killing Cordyceps fungus and changed human-organ transplant surgery. ❋ Dr. Reese Halter (2010)

One cancer of particular concern is a rare type of lymphoma called hepatosplenic T-cell lymphoma that has been reported mostly in adolescent or young adult male patients who were also on immunosuppressant medications known as thiopurines, making the role of drugs like Remicade unclear. ❋ Jennifer Corbett Dooren (2011)

Rejection only means that the transplant team needs to fine-tune the immunosuppressant medications your child is taking to prevent his immune system from trying to reject the liver. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A physical therapist comes to our house to work with it, because my wife is on immunosuppressant drugs, so she doesn't reject the hand, and she's not supposed to go out in public. ❋ Gary Moshimer (2011)

A deep water Caribbean sponge has compounds 1000 times stronger than cyclosporin an effective immunosuppressant. ❋ Dr. Reese Halter (2010)