Needs of Transplant Patients Challenge Food Professionals

Currently nearly 120,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant. Of these people, approximately 81% need a kidney transplant, a surgical procedure with excellent survival rates.

Rejection and infection are the two greatest challenges with organ transplants. Clinical intervention following rejection requires critical assessment of an array of modalities or therapeutic algorithms prior to introducing an immunosuppression regimen (Lucey et al., 2012). Sepsis management following liver transplan…