Solid Organ Transplantation

Multiple-organ transplants may be feasible for nonprogressing HIV patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 21st, 2003

Multiple-organ solid organ transplants may be feasible for long-term nonprogressing HIV patients.

"With the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), HIV infection has become a chronic disease with more frequent end-stage organ failures," scientists in Switzerland noted. "As a result, the question of transplantation in HIV patients is raised more often."

"Although still subject to controversies, HIV infection is no longer an absolute contraindication to solid organ transplantation," according to C. Toso and coauthors at the University of Geneva Hospital, who described "a case of combined kidney-pancreas transplantation in a HIV...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-07-21)

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