ABSTRACT
Cardiac transplantation has become an accepted treatment for patients with an end-stage cardiac disease. Advances during the last five decades have markedly improved the survival rates of cardiac transplant recipients. Currently, the one-year survival rate after cardiac transplantation is approaching 90%, with a subsequent mortality rate of 4% per year (1). Besides the shortage of donors, other important limitations of cardiac transplantation include toxic effects related to the use of nonspecific immunosuppression and allograft vasculopathy (transplant coronary artery disease). This chapter will address the common complications associated with cardiac transplantation.
