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Which treatment would be most effective in preventing the rejection of the organ by the patients body?
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give the patient a medication that decrease the immune system response
this is from abass braimah from cims
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A patient has jus received an organ transplant which treatment would be most effective in preventing the patients body from rejecting the organ?
Treat the patient with medications that decrease the immune system's response.
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