{"id":3463,"date":"2021-08-11T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2022-08-16T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T21:13:40","slug":"making-transplants-without-a-lifelong-regimen-of-anti-rejection-drugs-a-reality-at-ucla-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2021\/08\/11\/making-transplants-without-a-lifelong-regimen-of-anti-rejection-drugs-a-reality-at-ucla-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Making transplants without a lifelong regimen of anti-rejection drugs a reality at UCLA Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3463\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>&#8220;When he was a medical trainee, UCLA Health nephrologist\u00a0Erik Lum, MD, was part of a team at Stanford University exploring how to create \u201ctolerance\u201d in kidney-transplant patients \u2014 a process that encourages the body to welcome the new organ without the necessity for a lifelong regimen of anti-rejection drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Dr. Lum is among the leaders of a multidisciplinary team making transplant tolerance a reality at UCLA Health. Two kidney transplants have been performed thus far under the advanced protocol, making UCLA Health one of only five medical centers in the world capable of the groundbreaking approach hailed as \u201cthe Holy Grail\u201d of transplantation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt requires a lot of interplay between different divisions,\u201d Dr. Lum says. \u201cTo me, it really demonstrates the strength of a place like UCLA. You can\u2019t do this just anywhere. It\u2019s a huge collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protocol brings together a broad range of specialties, including nephrology, urology, hematology, radiation oncology and others, for a series of treatments that prime the transplant recipient\u2019s body to accept the new organ.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more, <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.uclahealth.org\/2021\/08\/04\/making-transplants-without-a-lifelong-regimen-of-anti-rejection-drugs-a-reality-at-ucla-health\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"3463\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading &#8220;When he was a medical trainee, UCLA Health nephrologist\u00a0Erik Lum, MD, was part of a team at Stanford University exploring how to create \u201ctolerance\u201d in kidney-transplant patients \u2014 a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2021\/08\/11\/making-transplants-without-a-lifelong-regimen-of-anti-rejection-drugs-a-reality-at-ucla-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making transplants without a lifelong regimen of anti-rejection drugs a reality at UCLA Health&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,912,29],"tags":[128,17,202],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"2","views":"1748","post_likes_plusCounter":"3","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}