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.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:47PM
There are two main types of aids.
These are broken out into multiple groups.
These groups are broken out into multiple strains.
Giving the recipient a set of different strains sounds non-optimal.
Presumably they accounted for this, but TFA doesn't bring it up.
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