Immunosuppressive Therapy

Preferred Label : Immunosuppressive Therapy;

NCIt synonyms : Anti-Rejection Therapy; Immunosuppression;

NCIt definition : Immunomodulation therapy designed to reduce the body's immune response.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: Treatment that lowers the activity of the body's immune system. This reduces its ability to fight infections and other diseases, such as cancer. Immunosuppressive therapy may be used to keep a person from rejecting a bone marrow or organ transplant. It may also be used to treat conditions in which the immune system is overactive, such as autoimmune diseases and allergies. Some types of immunosuppressive therapy may increase a person's risk of cancer by lowering the body's ability to kill cancer cells.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000045727; CDR0000045728;

Details

Origin ID

C15261;

UMLS CUI

C0021079;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Immunosuppressant (substance) [SNOMED CT concept]
- immunosuppressants [ATC Code]
- immunosuppressants [ATC Code]
- immunosuppression [COVID-19 Thesaurus concept]
- immunosuppressive agents [MeSH Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Immunosuppression [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Immunosuppression NOS [MedDRA LLT]
- Immunosuppression Therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
- Immunosuppression Therapy [MeSH concept]
- Immunosuppressive therapy (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- immunosuppression [IUPAC Term]
- immunosuppression [SNOMED Notion]
- immunosuppression (Physiology) [MeSH concept]
- immunosuppressive therapy, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- immunosuppressive treatment [Disease (Nov.)]
False automatic mappings
- Immunosuppression (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- immunosuppression [Disease (Nov.)]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Medicinal product acting as immunosuppressant (product) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Immunosuppression Therapy [MeSH concept]
- Immunosuppression Therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
- Immunosuppressive therapy (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- immunosuppressive therapy, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- immunosuppressive treatment [Disease (Nov.)]
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- CTRP Intervention Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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