Biometric implant monitors transplant patients for organ rejection

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Researchers at Northwestern University developed an implant that can continuously monitor an organ’s temperature for signs of infection and inflammation. The tech will be used to determine and preemptively treat organ transplant rejection in a noninvasive way.

for people who will not be able to live without dialysis. The American Kidney Fund cites that an acute rejection of a kidney transplant one month after surgery happens in about five to twenty percent of patients that go under.

That’s why it is critical to detect transplant rejection, which occurs when your body's immune system treats the new organ like a foreign object and attacks it. If a healthcare provider detects signs of rejection early enough, medical intervention can preserve the new organ in the new host. Northwestern researchers said that the device detected warning signs of organ rejection three weeks earlier than current monitoring methods.

 

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