General News Liver and kidney from HIV-infected donor are transplanted into HIV-positive patients

BradThePug · Mar 30, 2016

a first that gives HIV-infected patients yet another chance for long lives, surgeons at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center have transplanted a kidney and a liver from a dead donor who was HIV-positive into two HIV-positive recipients.

The transplant surgeries, which used organs donated by the family of an HIV-positive woman, ended a 25-year stretch in which the organs of HIV-infected people willing to donate them were rejected for use in transplants.
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General News Liver and kidney from HIV-infected donor are transplanted into HIV-positive patients

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