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Surgeons Perform First HIV-Positive Organ Transplants

''Doctors from Johns Hopkins Medicine announced Wednesday that they had performed the world’s first HIV-positive liver transplant, as well as the first HIV-positive kidney transplant. Both organs were donated by the same deceased HIV-positive donor to two patients currently living with HIV.

The successful procedures open the door to other HIV-positive patients — who often suffer organ complications either because of the virus or because of the available treatments to fight it — to offer an additional lifeline to consider when placed on crowded waiting lists for organ donations.

“For those living with HIV this is a very exciting time,” Dorry Segev, director of the Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation at Johns Hopkins, said at a news conference. “Now every HIV-positive donor is potential lives saved.”...''

by Azeen Ghorayshi

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