Table of Contents
- Overview
- Risks
- Recovery
- Prevention
- Images
Transplant - heart and lungs
Risks
Risks for any anesthesia are:
- Reactions to medications
- Problems breathing
- Bleeding
- Infection
- Failure of the transplanted organs
- Rejection of the transplanted organs
- Infection due to anti-rejection (
immunosuppression ) medications Blood clots - Stroke
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Heart Recovery
Review Date: 08/11/2005
Reviewed By: Joseph P. Hart, M.D., Marco Polo Traveling Fellow c/o Department of
Vascular Surgery, A. Z. St. Blasius Hospital (Belgium). Review
provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
