chronic rejection

collocation in English

meaningsofchronicandrejection

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chronic
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɒn.ɪk/us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪk/
(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a ...
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rejection
noun
uk
/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/us
/rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/
the act of refusing to accept, use, or believe someone ...
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Earlier recognition ofchronicrejectionhas previously been noted with the use of home monitoring (7).
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Chronicrejectioni s poorly understood and almost certainly involves a number of interrelated factors (see below).
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Among the 18patients,16 had no rejection, 1 patient had a fatal rejection and 1 was retransplanted because of severe coronary artery disease (chronicrejection?).
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Home monitoring of lung transplant recipients can detectchronicrejectionat an earlier time than normal clinical follow-up (7).
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Patient survival is reduced by the development ofchronicrejectionand infection and provides a significant area of concern for patient follow-up (12).
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This, in combination with our prior findings of early detection ofchronicrejectionin home monitoring patients, suggests that broader usage of this technology is appropriate.
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Finally, donor age, pre-transplant ischaemiareperfusion injury and intra-individual variability in cyclosporine concentrations in recipients of kidney transplants are all risk factors that might lead tochronicrejectionin cyclosporine-treated recipients.
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The cause ofchronicrejectionis still unknown but an acute rejection is a strong predictor of chronic rejections.
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They include hyperacute rejection, acute rejection andchronicrejection.
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Mechanism of humoral rejection is relevant for hyperacute, accelerated andchronicrejection.
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This is now "chronic allograft vasculopathy", however, leaving "chronicrejection" referring to rejection due to more patent aspects of immunity.
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Chronicrejectionexplains long-term morbidity in most lung-transplant recipients, the median survival roughly 4.7 years, about half the span versus other major organ transplants.
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Chronicrejectionleads to pathologic changes of the organ, and is why transplants must be replaced after so many years.
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Scientists are still unclear howchronicrejectionexactly works, research in this area is difficult since xenografts rarely survive past the initial acute rejection phases.
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The documented rejection experiences included both acute andchronicrejectionand frequently took the form of ostracism, bullying, and romantic rejection.
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Suchchronicrejectionpresents itself as bronchiolitis obliterans, or less frequently, atherosclerosis.
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A single episode of acute rejection can be recognized and promptly treated, usually preventing organ failure, but recurrent episodes lead to "chronicrejection".
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Perhaps the major cause ofchronicrejectionis arteriosclerosis.
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Chronicrejectionis the presence of any sign and symptom of rejection after 1 year.
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Chronicrejection, meaning repeated bouts of rejection symptoms beyond the first year after the transplant surgery, occurs in approximately 50% of patients.
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