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  Rejection
Fear of rejection is the abdication of power and control over my own life.
The pulling away of these caring ones appears to be rejection, and the vicious cycle goes on with negative results.
Are unaware that the person fears their rejection and do not take this person seriously.
www.coping.org /relations/reject.htm   (1579 words)

  
  Transplant rejection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hyperacute rejection is a complement-mediated response in recipients with pre-existing antibodies to the donor (for example, ABO blood type antibodies).
Acute rejection is generally acknowledged to be mediated by T cell responses to proteins from the donor organ which differ from those found in the recipient.
Rejection is an adaptive immune response and is mediated through both T cell mediated and humoral immune (antibodies) mechanisms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transplant_rejection   (963 words)

  
 Rejection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rejection must be detected and treated quickly to prevent damage to the transplanted heart.
Rejection may seem frightening to some transplant patients, but deaths from rejection are uncommon.
Acute vascular rejection is a type of acute rejection that occurs early after transplant (within the first four months) in a small number of patients.
cms.clevelandclinic.org /transplant/body.cfm?id=333   (748 words)

  
 What is chronic rejection?
Lymphocytes from the thymus (t-cells) are blamed for causing acute rejection.
The heart is an exception to this generalization: chronic rejection in heart grafts is felt to be manifest by accelerated graft atherosclerosis.
Kidneys with chronic rejection have fibrosis (scarring) and damage to the microscopic blood vessels in the substance of the kidney.
www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/transplant/html/chronic.html   (765 words)

  
 How to Handle Rejection - Bible Study - In Touch Ministries
Rejection suffered in the early years often sets the tone for a person's entire life.
Rejection is only destructive when we internalize it and allow it to creep into your belief system.
Dealing successfully with rejection requires honesty and a willingness to get to the root of the problem which is a poor view of our self-worth.
www.intouch.org /myintouch/exploring/studies/pressures/lesson5/index_345898.html   (1960 words)

  
 Liver - Humoral Rejection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The critical event in the effector phase of humoral rejection appears to be antibody binding to the endothelium and subsequent complement fixation and activation.
Immunopathology of antibodies as effectors of orthotopic liver allograft rejection.
Absence of hyperacute rejection of liver allografts in hypersensitized rats.
tpis.upmc.edu /tpis/liver/LRejHum.html   (3934 words)

  
 Rejection
Rejection is the immune system's normal and expected reaction to foreign matter in the body, including the transplanted kidney.
Approximately 90% of rejection episodes are successfully treated.
Most transplant recipients will experience some kind of rejection, but that does not necessarily mean that they will lose their new kidney.
www.transplant.med.va.gov /rejection.asp   (428 words)

  
 :: Online Guidance - Rejection: Coping with rejection ::
Rejection is a terrible word, but one with which most of us are familiar.
Rejection, whether by a loved one or a stranger, is so terrible because it means we've been snubbed in the worst possible way by a person or persons from whom we expected sympathy, friendship, or help.
He knows the depths of rejection and he wants to help you safely out of them, to help you face your disappointment and loss and to remind you how precious you are in his eyes.
guidance.gospelcom.net /rejection.htm   (313 words)

  
 Rejection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In psychology, rejection is an emotion felt by most humans (and possibly other higher animals) when another person denies a personal request, particularly if it is an emotional advance.
In medicine, transplant rejection usually refers to the immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in a transplantation.
In telecommunications, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rejection   (209 words)

  
 Rejection after a liver transplant | Liver Transplant Program - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Rejection is fairly common, with approximately 40 percent of children experiencing some signs within the first two weeks of surgery.
Rejection is treated by adjusting medication doses and does not generally seriously injure the liver in this setting.
If your child does have a rejection episode, he or she may need to be hospitalized for a few days while medications are adjusted.
www.chop.edu /consumer/jsp/division/generic.jsp?id=75670   (398 words)

  
 Rejection
Sometimes rejection is so wounding and painful that the mind refuses to focus on it.
The primary result of rejection is the inability to receive love from others and to communicate love to them.
In addition to rejection in early childhood, as one grows older they are exposed to even more rejection as the bonds of intimate, close relationships form.
www.dccsa.com /greatjoy/reject.htm   (2328 words)

  
 Rejection
Ultimately, the one whom this world rejected will return in glory, bringing in the “year of the Lord’s favor.” Known also as the year of Jubilee, it symbolizes the time in which all things will be renewed.
Rejection is not an “add-on” to the ministry of Christ; it is essential.
Rejection creates the rugged character of his ministry, and it also creates that character in our own work.
www.becomingcloser.org /Luke/rejection.htm   (1558 words)

  
 DEMONBUSTER - REJECTION z2reject   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rejection is defined as reject, refuse, repudiate, decline, deny, rebuff, repel, renounce, discard, throw away, exclude, eliminate and jettison.
Rejection is such a common malady that it is found everywhere to some degree or another.
The core of the schizophrenic is Rejection and Rebellion.
www.demonbuster.com /z2reject.html   (1441 words)

  
 Immunosuppression and Organ Rejection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rejection is the term used when your body's immune system is attacking your transplanted organ.
Rejection can frequently be silent and without symptoms, and detected only by lung function testing.
If rejection is suspected, a bronchoscopy, or lung biopsy, will be performed to rule out rejection or see if it is actually occurring.
www.columbiasurgery.org /programs/tx_lung/guide_immunosuppression.html   (449 words)

  
 Barbara Bretton - Wish You Were Here
Rejection, unfortunately, is the flip side of writing for publication.
Rejection is part of the game and, if you're going to play the game, you'd better get used to it quickly or your career will be shortlived.
My stories of rejection may not be as dramatic as Leonard's but they do serve to point out the power of perseverence.
www.barbarabretton.com /rejection.shtml   (1134 words)

  
 Day1 :: Rejection by The Rev. Dr. Elton Richards
Rejection is still the most painful human experience.
There is a destructive chain reaction in rejection that often moves from self-pity ~ nobody wants me ~ to sour grapes ~ I don't want anybody ~ and can go on to bitterness and sometimes vengeance.
He did it for all who have been rejected ~ for all refugees by the roadside of life ~ for all who are hurt, hungry and ready to lash out.
www.day1.net /index.php5?view=transcripts&tid=385   (1365 words)

  
 Tulane Center for Abdominal Transplant: Kidney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rejection occurs when your immune system discovers your new organ and sees it as foreign and tries to attack it.
Rejection is most common within the first six months after transplant, but it can occur at any time.
Most patients are hospitalized whenever rejection is suspected in order that these tests may be completed as soon as possible and that treatment is not delayed.
www.tulanetransplant.com /ki_rej.htm   (250 words)

  
 HYPERACUTE REJECTION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Antibody mediated rejection of the kidney generally occurs hours to days after transplantation (hyperacute rejection), but may be delayed by several weeks if sensitization to donor antigens has occured in the remote past (delayed accelerated acute rejection).
The pathogenesis of antibody mediated rejection occurring within the first few days of transplantation is believed to be due to preformed antibodies reactive against donor antigens.
In general, treatment of full blown antibody mediated rejection is disappointing, and it is better to minimize the possibility of its occurrence by performing a donor specific cross match and a panel reactive antibody (PRA) test on the recipient serum prior to transplantation.
tpis.upmc.edu /tpis/kidney/KHAcuRej.html   (1059 words)

  
 Lung Transplant Rejection
This is called rejection, and it is your body's way of not accepting the new organ.
Although rejection is most common in the first six months after surgery, it can occur at any time.
In order to control the rejection, you might need to be admitted to the hospital, or you might receive care in an outpatient setting.
www.clevelandclinic.org /health/health-info/docs/2700/2722.asp   (699 words)

  
 Corneal transplantation
Graft rejection occurs in 5-30% of patients, a complication possible with any procedure involving tissue transplantation from another person (allograft).
Allograft rejection results from a reaction of the patient's immune system to the donor tissue.
Rejection reactions may become noticeable within weeks after surgery, but may not occur until 10 or even 20 years after the transplant.
www.healthatoz.com /healthatoz/Atoz/ency/corneal_transplantation.jsp   (1255 words)

  
 Salon People | Rejection made easy
Most of the rejection letters I receive come courtesy of my own hand-printed SASEs, but increasingly the envelope is being used as a medium in which to stuff promotional and subscription materials from the publication that has rejected my work.
Please ensure that your name is on the rejection letter, along with your home address, phone number, fax number and the names of your children and pets.
Rejections without these items will be returned to you at your own expense.
archive.salon.com /people/feature/2000/03/17/rejection/index.html   (748 words)

  
 Penn Transplant Center: Kidney Program: Monitoring for Rejection
Your body's response to any foreign object is to destroy it, so rejection is a normal reaction to the transplanted organ, which your body views as a foreign object.
New organ rejection is normal and can occur at any time after a transplant.
If you are having a rejection episode, you may be admitted to the hospital for treatment.
www.pennhealth.com /transplant/kidney/rejection.html   (323 words)

  
 MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Transplant rejection
For example, patients who reject a kidney may have less urine, and patients who reject a heart may have symptoms of heart failure.
The dose may be very high while the tissue is actually being rejected, and then reduced to a lower level to prevent it from happening again.
Suppressing the immune system is usually necessary for the rest of the transplant recipient's life to prevent the tissue from being rejected in the future.
www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/000815.htm   (737 words)

  
 Liver Transplant Program - Rejection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rejection is the immune system's normal and expected reaction to foreign matter in the body, including the transplanted liver.
Most transplant recipients will experience some kind of rejection, but that does not mean that they will lose their new liver.
The liver transplant team will treat rejection and is usually able to save the liver.
www.va.gov /portland/transplant/liver/rejection.htm   (386 words)

  
 Novak Home Page Rej   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Rejections are a big part of the life of every short fiction writer of my acquaintance.
Rejections come in various kinds: the say-nothing form rejection, the targeted form rejection, the personalized say-nothing macro, and the personal note.
Her set of rejection letters can be entertaining, after one has gotten over the initial disappointment of failing to sell.
www.auburn.edu /~duffypa/rej.html   (390 words)

  
 eMedicine - Corneal Graft Rejection : Article by Jason Jacobs, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The rejection line represents a region of destruction of donor epithelium; the resulting epithelial defect is covered by host epithelium that grows inward from the remaining host cornea and limbus to cover the graft.
Since corneal graft rejection is the leading cause of graft failure in the late postoperative period, it would be useful to be able to identify and treat those patients at highest risk for graft rejection.
The sooner an episode of graft rejection is detected clinically and therapy is begun, the better the prognosis for graft survival.
www.emedicine.com /oph/topic90.htm   (3645 words)

  
 Motivating Past Rejection
I never mentioned the Selling Power article or a few other credentials that seemed like overkill, but the hiring committee certainly knew that I’d worked with many of the largest and most successful companies in the world, and that I’d spoken to and trained groups of all types and sizes.
They rejected me. In favor of somebody who’d probably never sold a single thing in his life and taught the course from an astonishingly incompetent textbook on sales written by someone who didn’t know a whole lot more than he did.
The first lesson I would have tried to teach that class would have been about rejection.
www.barrymaher.com /motivating_past_rejection.htm   (1324 words)

  
 Immunosuppression and Organ Rejection after Renal Transplant
Rejection is the immune system's attack on the transplanted organ.
Rejection occurs most often in the first six months after transplant.
Most rejection episodes do not have symptoms and are usually picked up through routine bloodwork.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu /dept/cs/pat/kidneypancreastx/rejection.html   (238 words)

  
 Rejection (emotion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A person may reject for several reasons: lack of reciprocal interest, circumstances like societal codes, desire to make the other person perceive difficulty ("playing hard to get") and fear of placing himself or herself in a situation of vulnerability and heightened interaction.
This is displayed as something ranging from a vague sadness to major depression; and at the same time the rejected person senses helplessness consciously, perceiving that he or she is at the rejecting person's mercy.
The experience of rejection is often complicated in the presence of spectators.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rejection_(emotion)   (348 words)

  
 CHFpatients.com - Heart Transplant - Organ Rejection
Eighty-five percent of rejection espisodes are of this type.
About 18% of heart recipients have this pattern of rejection and they have a one-year survival of 67% and a 5-year survival of 36%.
To lower the chances of transplant rejection, donors who share as many MHC genes as possible with the transplant recipient are preferred.
www.chfpatients.com /tx/txrejection.htm   (2132 words)

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