Transplant Among Cannabis Users
Cannabis is well established as a medicine (as it has been for millennia) and should not prevent patients from receiving a necessary transplant.
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a common – and potentially fatal – complication following bone marrow and solid organ transplants. This life threatening condition can also occur after a patient receives a blood transfusion or other forms of transplanted tissue from a genetically different person.
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