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If you have major (and successful) surgery on an organ when you are young, is that organ any more prone to failure when you become a senior?
Comment by Mockingjay40 at 18/01/2024 at 21:24 UTC
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In my educated opinion, my initial thought is no. If rejection doesn’t occur early, your body will adapt better. I can imagine a possibility that the organ is more susceptible to failure later in life in that it might be more worn out because of the transfer. But it terms of like immune rejection I’d imagine no. I’m in this field generally but not the organ transplant/clinical side so someone more knowledgeable may have to fact check me here