Why wouldn’t a lung transplant cure/get rid of asthma?
In: Biology
So few things here. Being a transplant patient can help as they are put on immune suppressing drugs. This is not a cure and you can still have an attack however. Further asthma affects more than just the lungs such as with the trachea and throat. A replaced lung does not replace these tissues. Finally much of the immune response is not localized to the place the response is triggered. Realize only a portion of the asthma is caused by defective lung tissue.
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