Solid-Organ Transplantation in HIV-Infected Patients
- 25 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 347 (4) , 284-287
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb020632
Abstract
Many centers do not consider asymptomatic HIV-positive patients to be candidates for solid-organ transplantation, although there are no data to indicate that the outcome of transplantation is worse among these patients than among other transplant recipients. This Sounding Board reviews the ethical arguments for considering tranplantatation in patients with HIV infection as similar to transplantation in patients with other chronic illnesses.Keywords
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