#lung-transplant

#lung-transplant

More than 50 percent of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet the reason why this is such a prevalent complication has remained a medical mystery. Now, a new Northwestern Medicine study published in JCI Insight has found that, following transplant and in chronic disease states, abnormal cells emerge and "conversations" between them drive the development of lung damage and transplant rejection.