Why wouldn’t a lung transplant cure/get rid of asthma?
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It’s an autoimmune disorder. Since the transplant isn’t giving you a new immune system, it can’t eliminate the cause of the asthma. Of course with a transplant, you’ll be getting immunosuppressants so that might mitigate the asthma. But in any case, the risks of a lung transplant far outweigh the risks of having asthma, and the number of people who need lung transplants because otherwise they’ll die, and very soon, give them a much higher priority than people with asthma.
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