Immune problems with Medical Devices

Biomedical devices is one of the fastest growing fields right now, but unfortunately problems with the different components used in the devices can have potentially harmful effects to the body. It is already known that when a biomedical implant is placed within a patient's body, the body's response to the device is to reject it and could end up in device failure. The body reacts to biomaterials and biological components with an inflammatory and immune reaction respectively. If a biomedical device were to combine different components that could have these reactions, then when they may effect each other because they occur simultaneously. More research needs to be done into how the body could respond to these multiple reactions in order to produce proficient biomedical devices.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223161713.htm