Transplant complications
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