4/24/17 Transplantation PALOMA FINAL TEST Flashcards
What are indications for needing a bone marrow transplant?
- Leukemia
- Lymphoma
- Multiple Myeloma
What type of transplant is COPD, Cystic Fibrosis, Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis an indication for?
-Lungs
What are indications for needing liver transplants?
- Viral Hepatitis
- Overdose
- Alcohol
What type of transplant has the highest expected survival at 5 years?
-Kidney
What type of transplant has the lowest expected survival at 5 years?
-Lungs
What are the five major drug classes used during a transplant?
- Calcineurin inhibitors
- mTOR inhibitors
- Antiproliferative agents
- Antibodies
- Corticosteroids
What type of immune response occurs in transplantation?
-Adaptive response
What is the major target during transplantation?
-allo-MHC on surface of donor cells
What are the two stages of rejection: host versus graft?
- Sensitization stage
- Effector stage
What is the direct pathway of the sensitization stage?
-Host T cells recognize allo-MHC molecules as non-self
What is the indirect pathway of the sensitization stage?
-T cells recognize processed alloantigen presented by self APCs
What is the effector stage in rejection?
- Inflammatory response to injury
- B cell activation with Ab production
- Further cell recruiting, NKs, apoptosis
SOT (Solid Organ) transplant has four stages, what are they?
- Induction
- Acute post-transplant
- Maintenance
- Rejection treatment
What are the four stages of HSCT (Stem cell transplant)?
- Induction/conditioning
- Consolidation/Intensification
- Maintenance
- GVHD treatment
What phase of post HSCT occurs during 0-30 days?
-Phase I
What occurs in phase I of post HSCT?
- Prolonged neutropenia
- Damage to mucocutaneous barriers