The nurse is caring for a client who has undergone a kidney transplant.The client asks the nurse what will happen when his body realizes that the kidney is not "his." What is the nurse's best response?

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Because a solid organ transplanted into a host is seldom a perfectly identical match of human leukocyte antigens (unless the organ is obtained from an identical sibling)between the donated organ and the recipient host,the client's immune system cells recognize a newly transplanted organ as non-self.Without intervention,the host's immune system starts inflammatory and immunologic actions to destroy or eliminate these non-self cells.The immune response is suppressed so that the body will not attack the new organ.

The Nurse Is Caring for a Client Who Has Undergone