Results Of Kidney Transplantation In HIV-Infected Patients

Results Of Kidney Transplantation In HIV-Infected Patients.
A large, green investigation provides more evidence that people infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, do almost as well on the survival towards as other patients when they undergo kidney transplants. Up until the mid-1990s, physicians tended to elude giving kidney transplants to HIV patients because of fear that AIDS would quickly kill them. Since then, untrained medications have greatly lengthened life spans for HIV patients, and surgeons routinely play kidney transplants on them in some urban hospitals.

The study authors, led by Dr Peter G Stock, a professor of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, examined the medical records of 150 HIV-infected patients who underwent kidney transplantation between 2003 and 2009. They publish their findings in the Nov. 18 event of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The researchers found that about 95 percent of the uproot patients lived for one year and about 88 percent lived for three years. Those survival rates killed between those for kidney transfer patients in unspecialized and those who are aged 65 and over. "They live just as long as the other patients we consider for transplantation. They're essentially the same as the holder of our patients," said transplant specialist Dr Silas P Norman, an subordinate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. Norman was not part of the meditate on team.