Any medical types on the flist...

[kellifer]

So, I have a couple of questions for a fic and I'm sure I could google or wiki it but...

- What kind of complications could arise from a heart transplant?

- What are the considerations? Do blood types have to match etc...?

- What's the recovery like?

Basically I'm going to be using "science-fiction" rather than science - alien technology, but there are some things that would still work the same...

This is for my second sweet charity fic so any help would be appreciated... I've completely changed what I'm writing... again... *bites fingernails*

Comments

[sams1ra.livejournal.com]

Blood types have to match at least two criteria; ABo, and RH (+/-). It's more likely to find a match among family than it is from strangers. There are 3 types of rejection mechanisms (GVHS - graft Vs. Host Syndrome), so to reduce the chance of that happening, the immune system of the transplantee has to be impaired before the transplant.
There's SO much more to this, I'm not even gonna start writing it here, but you can check this site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Or more specifically, this: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003003.htm
Hope that helps.