Liver Transplantation (HIV Infection)

Advances in HIV Treatment Make Patients Candidates for Transplants

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 13th, 1999

Only a handful of medical centers around the world are willing to transplant organs into HIV positive patients - a controversial procedure both in terms of medical success and societal acceptance.

But surgeons at an international liver transplantation conference said much of that could change as aggressive new therapies like the so-called AIDS "cocktail" allow people infected with HIV to live longer.

"As far as I'm concerned, they're all patients," said transplant surgeon Dr. Nigel Heaton of King's College Hospital in London, United Kingdom, where four HIV patients have been given transplants. "I don't believe in social reasons for...

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