Heart Transplant Risks
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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