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posted by martyb on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the life++ dept.

World first as living HIV patient donates kidney in US

In a world first, US doctors have transplanted a kidney from one HIV-positive patient to another. The operation took place at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland, with both patients said to be doing well.

"This is the first time someone living with HIV has been allowed to donate a kidney, ever, in the world," Dr Dorry Segev said in a release.

It was previously thought that HIV carried too great a risk factor for kidney disease in the donor. But new types of anti-retroviral drugs used to treat the disease are seen as safe for the kidney.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:53AM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:53AM (#822638) Journal
    And an HIV patient lacking a kidney has enough health concerns without getting a different variant of HIV. Still if an HIV donor with a similar strain of HIV as the target patient gets killed in an accident, then those health concerns pretty much evaporate.
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  • (Score: 1) by EJ on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:57AM

    by EJ (2452) on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:57AM (#822639)

    If the donor isn't dead is what I meant.