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Well, a common complication is related to the time of surgery and these include bleeding, clotting, infections. Sometimes patients are on medications long term that suppress the immune system that could lead to developing more complicated infections. Sometimes certain conditions such as hematologic malignancies such as lymphomas can happen as a result of those medications. Some patients could have cardiac arrest. Other patients could develop heart failure because of rejection. There is a primary allograph rejection, which has to do with the patient rejecting the organ, not functioning and not pumping the blood effectively, and those patients die within the first year. There’s allograft vasculopathy that has to do with coronary disease forming rapidly in the transplanted heart, which leads to atherosclerosis and then heart attack and insufficiency of that muscle, which could also lead to many other complications, such as heart attack, heart failure, and cardiac arrest.
