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LOPEZ SERRANO, B.; ZUFIA GARCIA, F.J.; RUIZ GIARDIN, R.  e  MEDINA CUENCA, P.. Follow up on post-transplant patients: Recommendations from Primary Health Care. Medifam [online]. 2001, vol.11, n.8, pp.46-50. ISSN 1131-5768.

Solid organ transplantation is one of the medical success stories of the past decade. The mark improvement in early graft survival has resulted in more long-term successful transplant survivors, many of whom have other ongoing medical and surgical complications, and many of this complications are the direct or indirect consequences of immunosuppressive therapy, such as cardiovascular disease, secondary tumors, infections, hypertension, hyperuricemia and gout, etc.  Although medical complications are frecuent, they are usually similar to the rest of patients and easily managed. The role for primary care physicians includes monitoring of allograft function, acute intervention of minor complications, management of long term concomitant medical conditions and preventive actions.

Palavras-chave : Transplant; Immunosuppressive therapy; Primary Health Care.

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