Current concepts and perspectives of immunosuppression in organ transplantation
2007
Background
While early surgical success made organ transplantation possible in the 1950s and 1960s, the breakthrough in clinical organ transplantation was achieved through the discovery and invention of modern immunosuppressive agents in the early/mid-1980s. Especially during the 1990s, a large array of immunosuppressants has expanded the armamentarium used to prevent and treat allograft rejection, resulting in an excellent short-term and an acceptable long-term outcome. However, these drugs have potent but still non-specific immunosuppressive properties and frequently show severe acute and chronic side effects, sometimes questioning the overall success.
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