Question on Rejection
- by Shaun
- 2017-06-30 15:34:37
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I was talking to a friend who has a coronary stent the other day and he mentioned that he was taking medication to prevent his body from rejecting the stent and it got me wondering why pacemaker recipients don't need to take medication to prevent the body from rejecting the pacemaker and leads.
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Not Rejection, but blockage.
by BillH - 2017-06-30 19:57:33
Stents are not subject to rejections. But until the arteries cells grow around it they are more prone to having a clog form in them.
The meds are not anti-jection, but antiplatlet.
infections
by dwelch - 2017-06-30 20:18:48
Docs are still worried about us having infections, cuts, dental work, whatever, and may treat us differently if we come in with an infected cut anywhere, not necessarily there. But Ill go with what TraceyE said...
Shaun
by IAN MC - 2017-07-01 15:06:04
I think your friend may have got it wrong . I don't think anti-rejection drugs ( immuno-suppressants ) are routinely used after stent implantation . This really would be over-kill because these drugs are serious medicine and have considerable downsides especially the increased likelihood that you would get infections because of your weakened defences.
As far as allergies to stents and pacemakers go, " never say never" . Although they are rare this would be little consolation if you were one of the unlucky ones. Metal-allergies are well documented especially to nickel and titanium ( which may be in both stents and PMs ) and a couple of years ago there were posts on here regarding allergies to slicone which again is commonly used in PMs.
But to use anti-rejection drugs routinely would be a no-no.; the risks really would outweigh the benefits
Ian
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by Tracey_E - 2017-06-30 16:07:22
Pacers are made of hypo-allergenic metals so rejection isn't an issue. Very very rarely, allergy can be a problem. I don't know what stents are made of but I think rejection is associated with organic material.