2024年6月16日 · What Is Immunosuppression? Immunosuppression means that the immune system is either temporarily or permanently impaired. The spleen and other organs, as well as white blood cells, can't respond as well to infection and inflammation.

2023年8月1日 · Immunosuppressants are drugs that prevent your immune system from attacking healthy cells and tissues by mistake. Healthcare providers prescribe immunosuppressants to treat certain autoimmune diseases and prevent organ or stem cell transplant rejection.

2024年12月17日 · Immunocompromised is also called having a weakened immune system. You might hear it called “immunosuppression” when it’s due to certain treatments or illnesses that you weren’t born with. How do you know if you have a compromised immune system?

2023年10月24日 · Immunosuppression, also known as immune suppression or immunocompromise, means the immune system isn't working as well as it normally would. This includes any or all of the defences that make up the immune system - particularly the white cells in the bloodstream, the spleen and the lymph nodes.

immunosuppression, reduction in the ability of the immune system to defend against disease or infection. Immunosuppression may be induced by certain diseases, such AIDS, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, or type 1 diabetes mellitus.

2018年11月28日 · Immunosuppression is the dampening of the body’s ability to ward off disease and infection. It can be induced deliberately, or be the result of an infection.

2020年6月30日 · Following transplant, you will need to take medications to prevent your body from attacking/ rejecting your new organ (s). These medications are called immunosuppressants. You will likely be on a combination of these medications as each of the medications work in different areas of the immune system.

Immunosuppression can result from killing of immune effector cells or from blockage of intracellular pathways essential for antigen recognition or of other elements of the immune response. Persistent immunosuppression presents a risk of cancer.

Many people who receive organ transplants take medications to suppress the immune system so the body won’t reject the organ. These "immunosuppressive" drugs make the immune system less able to detect and destroy cancer cells or fight off infections that cause cancer.

2025年2月4日 · Immunosuppressants are a class of medications that are prescribed intentionally to suppress the immune system, such as to treat an autoimmune disease or prevent the body from rejecting an organ transplant. Immunosuppression can also be a side effect of some treatments, like chemotherapy.