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The journal of Science Translational Medicine<\/a><\/em> published an article describing the surgical procedure developed at Northwestern Memorial Hospital<\/a> regarding organ transplantation. The article, co-authored by Dr. Joseph Leventhal<\/a>, a surgeon at Northwestern, said the new organ transplant procedure would help eliminate the need for numerous medications that individuals must take to prevent the body’s immune system from rejecting a new organ.<\/p>\n

The reported study described the procedure in which a recipient’s immune system accepts a mismatched organ, even one with a high rate of rejection, from a donor who is unrelated. Those kinds of organ donors represent the majority of the roughly 28,000 organ transplants each year in the United States.<\/p>\n

In traditional organ transplant procedures, recipients take medications for the rest of their lives to prevent the body’s immune system from rejecting the organ.<\/p>\n

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