{"id":243467,"date":"2026-09-01T09:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cmv-the-virus-lurking-inside-us-that-can-threaten-transplant-patients-dr-neil-inhaber-md"},"modified":"2026-09-01T09:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:07:31","slug":"cmv-the-virus-lurking-inside-us-that-can-threaten-transplant-patients-dr-neil-inhaber-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cmv-the-virus-lurking-inside-us-that-can-threaten-transplant-patients-dr-neil-inhaber-md","title":{"rendered":"CMV \u2014 The Virus Lurking Inside Us That Can Threaten Transplant Patients | Dr. Neil Inhaber, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDHkuF9_HuA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Hidden Organ Transplant Threat \u2014 CMV \u2014 Dr. Neil Inhaber, MD, FRCPC \u2014 Head, Marketed Products and Neuroscience, Global Medical Affairs, Takeda.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Every year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world receive life-saving organ transplants \u2014 new hearts, kidneys, lungs, and livers that offer patients a second chance at life.<\/p>\n<p>But transplantation is only the beginning of the journey.<\/p>\n<p>Because preventing organ rejection requires suppressing the immune system, transplant recipients become vulnerable to infections that most healthy people never even notice.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important \u2014 and least understood \u2014 is cytomegalovirus, or CMV.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/cmv-the-virus-lurking-inside-us-that-can-threaten-transplant-patients-dr-neil-inhaber-md\">Continue reading \u201cCMV \u2014 The Virus Lurking Inside Us That Can Threaten Transplant Patients | Dr. Neil Inhaber, MD\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hidden Organ Transplant Threat \u2014 CMV \u2014 Dr. Neil Inhaber, MD, FRCPC \u2014 Head, Marketed Products and Neuroscience, Global Medical Affairs, Takeda. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world receive life-saving organ transplants \u2014 new hearts, kidneys, lungs, and livers that offer patients a second chance at life. But transplantation is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}