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

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.