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

As heart transplantation becomes much more common primary care physicians w ill play a key role in preventing, detecting, and treating the short-term a nd long-term complications of this procedure. These complications include c hiefly graft rejection and accelerated coronary artery disease, but also dy slipidemia, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, kidney failure, gout, osteopor osis, and malignancy.