Heart-and-lung transplant

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Heart, front view	Heart, section through the middle	Lungs
Thoracic organs

Transplant - heart and lungs

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

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).

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