Why do some lung transplant patients face higher rejection risk?
UCLA Health study points to a key genetic variant
“Lung transplantation has the poorest long-term survival of any solid organ transplant, and that’s largely because of chronic rejection,” said Dr. Hrish Kulkarni, the Allan J. Swartz and Roslyn Holt Swartz Women’s Lung Health Endowed Chair and associate professor in the Division of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine. He is also corresponding author of the study, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
