PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yamani, Mohamad H.
AU  - Starling, Randall C.
TI  - Long-term medical complications of heart transplantation: Information for the primary care physician
DP  - 2000 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 673--680
VI  - 67
IP  - 9
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/67/9/673.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/67/9/673.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2000 Sep 01; 67
AB  - 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.