title: 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 mellitus, kidney failure, gout, osteoporosis, and malignancy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, USA.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Yamani
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Starling
mesh_terms: D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis / Q000379:methods; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000628:therapy; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000188:drug therapy; D019468:Disease Management; D005194:Family Practice / Q000639:trends*; D006073:Gout / Q000628:therapy; D006084:Graft Rejection / Q000628:therapy; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000188:drug therapy; D006973:Hypertension / Q000188:drug therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000628:therapy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D051437:Renal Insufficiency / Q000517:prevention & control; D012086:Reoperation; D012307:Risk Factors