Maintenance immunosuppression after organ transplantation
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Cyclosporine is one of the cornerstone maintenance immunosuppressants after kidney, liver, heart, lung and bone marrow transplantation. Standard regimens combine it with an antimetabolite (mycophenolate mofetil, azathioprine) and a glucocorticoid. In recent years tacrolimus has gradually replaced cyclosporine in most protocols due to better graft survival, but cyclosporine remains an alternative when tacrolimus is not tolerated or specific adverse effects develop.
Therapy is led by a transplantation specialist with serum concentration monitoring. Target range depends on the type of transplant and time after surgery (typically 100–300 ng/mL by C0 or 600–1400 ng/mL by C2).