RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Long-term medical complications of heart transplantation: Information for the primary care physician
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 673
OP 680
VO 67
IS 9
A1 Yamani, Mohamad H.
A1 Starling, Randall C.
YR 2000
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/67/9/673.abstract
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.