A novel immune function biomarker identifies patients at risk of clinical events early following liver transplantation

Conclusion: Low IFNγ suggesting over‐suppression is associated with infections, while high IFNγ indicating under‐suppression is associated with rejection. This assay offers the potential to allow individualisation and optimisation of immunosuppression that could fundamentally alter the way patients are managed following transplantation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

Source: Liver Transplantation - January 29, 2017 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Siddharth Sood, Craig Haifer, Lijia Yu, Julie Pavlovic, Leonid Churilov, Paul J. Gow, Robert M. Jones, Peter W. Angus, Kumar Visvanathan, Adam G. Testro Tags: Original Article Source Type: research