Transplantation Therapeutics Market 2018 : Focusing on Graft-Versus-Host Disease and Kidney Transplantation
In 2015 a total of 127,000 transplantations were performed worldwide, an increase of 5.8% from 2014, with 33,000 of these occurring in the EU and 32,000 in the US. Approximately 60% of these were kidney transplants, with liver, heart, lung, pancreas and small bowel transplantations accounting for the other most common procedures (Dominguez-Gil and Matesanz, 2017). When a graft is transplanted from a genetically non-identical individual, the recipients immune system recognizes the graft as foreign.
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