Kidney transplant management is an essential domain where nephrology overlaps with internal medicine. Internists follow up with post-transplant recipients for rejection, infection, and side effects of medications in collaboration with transplant teams.
Immunosuppressive treatment is weighed and monitored carefully to ensure balance between prevention of rejection and infection. Nutritional counseling, lifestyle change, and regular lab monitoring are also integral parts of management.
By patient education, compliance support, and anticipatory complication management, internal medicine achieves long-term transplant success. Multidisciplinary care improves patient outcomes and quality of life.