Professional paper
PECULIARITIES OF CARE FOR PATIENTS WITH TRANSPLANTED SOLID ORGAN IN FAMILY MEDICINE
IVANA KATIĆ MILOŠEVIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-0485
; Ivana Katić Milošević Family Medicine Office, Sinj, Croatia
Abstract
Transplantation is sometimes the only therapeutic option to treat acute or chronic organ failure. In the care of transplant patients, there are numerous complications that are caused by powerful immunosuppressive drugs, cardiovascular, metabolic, and neoplastic diseases. These diseases are associated with signifi cant morbidity and mortality in patients after transplantation, which will become an important part for supporting the transplant patient care. In the fi rst year after transplantation, patients have regular contact with transplant center, and family doctor acts as a contact connecting patients with specialized centers, while also detecting and managing health problems and issues that are not related only to transplantation. After that, the role of family physicians is becoming ever more important and active in the prevention of morbidity and mortality in transplant patients by appropriate and timely intervention in detection of side effects of immunosuppressive therapy and threatening metabolic disorders. The aim of this article is to show the role of family physician in tracking the welfare of organ transplant patient.
Keywords
transplantation; immunosuppressive agents; metabolic disorder; primary/family physician
Hrčak ID:
179223
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Publication date:
6.4.2017.
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