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Revision as of 18:43, 20 June 2015
Background
- Transplanted organ frequency: kidney > liver > heart > lung > pancreas > other (combined and intestines)
- First solid organ transplant was in 1954 (kidney)
- Most transplant patients require lifelong immunosuppression
- Types of emergencies
- transplant-related infection
- medication side effects
- rejection
- graft-versus-host disease
- postoperative complications and complications of altered physiology secondary to the transplanted organ
- Often transplant patients present with common medical problems but require unique management due to their altered physiology
- ↑ Tintinalli's