Long-term medical complications of heart transplantation: Information for the primary care physician

  • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • September 2000,
  • 67
  • (9)
  • 673-680;

ABSTRACT

As heart transplantation becomes much more common primary care physicians will play a key role in preventing, detecting, and treating the short-term and long-term complications of this procedure. These complications Include chiefly graft rejection and accelerated coronary artery disease, but also dyslipidemia, hypertension, diabetes mellltus, kidney failure, gout, osteoporosis, and malignancy.

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