San Antonio doctors keeping patients protected with new ways of doing checkups
When comes to contracting COVID-19, transplant patients have to be careful because they are taking medication that suppresses their immune system. Dr. Adam Bingaman, Director of the Abdominal Transplant Program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, said patients need to take medications to protect their bodies from rejecting a transplant. Bingaman said it is critical that transplant patients and their caregivers stay home. Patients need to be rigorously monitored to detect organ rejection, which makes trips to the lab difficult. However, he is hopeful that rate is going down, with Dallas recently reporting a 10 to 15 percent death rate with COVID-19 patients who have had transplants.