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World First as Living HIV Patient Donates Kidney in US

posted by martyb on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
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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: -1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:31AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:31AM (#822603) Journal

    The doctor who transplanted a HIV positive kidney has now succumbed to AIDS.

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  • (Score: 1) by EJ on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:05AM (3 children)

    by EJ (2452) on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:05AM (#822625)

    This just seems like a bad idea. An HIV positive person has enough health concerns already without giving up a kidney.

    • (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.

      • (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.

    • (Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:47PM

      by RandomFactor (3682) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:47PM (#822747) Journal

      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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  • (Score: -1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:49AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:49AM (#822636)

    perfect love.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @05:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @05:10AM (#822642)

      No I'm not.

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