HIV Organ Transplant Success


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Success during the first liver transplant in the world from donor infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in patients who tested positive for the disease.

This was confirmed by doctors three years after prohibit conduct such operations before being overturned.

Said Dorry Segev, professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University that includes the procedure of a deceased donor where his liver was transferred to patients with HIV.

Also given the same donor that his kidney to a patient in for a kidney transplant.

“A couple of weeks ago we performed the first HIV-to-HIV liver transplant in the world, and the first HIV-to-HIV kidney transplant in the United States,”

Segev said.

Segev Unable to hide their so much excitement and emphasizes that it is only the beginning.

Meanwhile, the identity of patients not revealed during medical team confirmed that they are recovering from the operation endured.

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