Difference between revisions of "Transplant complications"
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**graft-versus-host disease | **graft-versus-host disease | ||
**postoperative complications and complications of altered physiology secondary to the transplanted organ | **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 | + | *Often transplant patients present with common medical problems but require unique management due to their altered physiology <ref>Tintinalli's</ref> |
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| − | <ref>Tintinalli's</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Epidemiology== | ||
| + | *Types of presentations | ||
| + | **Infection (39%) | ||
| + | **Noninfectious GI/GU pathology (15%) | ||
| + | **Dehydration (15%) | ||
| + | **Electrolyte disturbances (10%) | ||
| + | **Cardiopulmonary pathology (10%) | ||
| + | **Injury (8%) | ||
| + | **Rejection (6%) | ||
| + | *Acute graft-versus-host disease occurs in 20% to 80% of patients post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); rarely occurs in solid organ transplant <ref>Tintinalli's</ref> | ||
<references/> | <references/> | ||
Revision as of 18:45, 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 [1]
Epidemiology
- Types of presentations
- Infection (39%)
- Noninfectious GI/GU pathology (15%)
- Dehydration (15%)
- Electrolyte disturbances (10%)
- Cardiopulmonary pathology (10%)
- Injury (8%)
- Rejection (6%)
- Acute graft-versus-host disease occurs in 20% to 80% of patients post-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); rarely occurs in solid organ transplant [2]