Posted on 07/29/2022 5:02:01 PM PDT by algore
Doctors in New York City have performed the first ever heart transplant from a person who is HIV positive.
An unnamed woman in her 60s who was suffering from advanced heart failure received both a heart and kidney transplant from the same HIV-positive donor in spring, doctors at Montefiore Health in the Bronx, New York City, announced this week. The woman also had HIV herself.
Organ transplants from HIV positive donors had been banned in the U.S. until 2013. Now, they are allowed under the context of research, finding how a body will respond to the new organs.
With over 100,000 Americans waiting for a new organ - and more than a dozen people on that list dying each day - doctors are hopeful that even slightly expanding the pool of donors will allow for more lives to be saved. Matching HIV positive patients to other HIV positive donors could also allow for a more efficient use of other resources.
'This is something that has not been done before. It is part of a broader effort to use organs that have historically not been used,' Dr David Klassen, chief medical officer of the United Network for Organ Sharing told DailyMail.com.
The demand for new organs will always exceed available supply across the world. Official data shows 106,023 Americans waiting for a organ donation as of Friday afternoon.
For comparison, only around 40,000 transplants are performed every year. This leads to many people dying while awaiting a new organ - and the list of potential recipients is regularly growing as well.
Heart transplants in particular can be hard to find. Recipients must hope an eligible donor emerges whose cause of death did not damage their heart
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
According to the article the recipient was also HIV positive.
There is always a demand for organ transplants. I guess if you are days from death, taking an HIV positive organ that may allow you to live for several more years doesn’t sound that bad.
Clever!
Days to live or years? Your choice.
I’ve never heard the 100k figure, so it was a little more
than poor math.
Especially those by Judy Garland.
Do you have HIV? You must because you believe you would get an HIV heart. I’m sorry you slept with too many people and caught AIDS. Very sad and sorry for you.
the recipient also has aids
Do a heart transplant with an HIV positive heart, and then give the patient powerful immune suppressing drugs to prevent rejection.
What could possibly go wrong?
Pts on hiv meds have higher than normal incidence of heart disease...so not a surprise. Most likely the hiv pos donor had heart disease and kidney disease(hiv infects kidney nephrons) so recipient might have gotten a less than stellar set of organs. I hope the donor isn’t giving the recep. a hiv virus which is resistant to the hiv meds recipient is taking.
All in all...a crappy way to spend ones life.... hope the recipient does well.
hey, just noticed...I didn’t have to use a pronoun to describe the events.
READ THE DAMN ARTICLE!!!!!!! So embarrassing how clearly so many are eithet last or illiterate.
How pathetic of a reply.
I’m a queer
I’m a queer
Kill me and take my heart.
See, you homophobes, the queers are a benefit to society.
The recipient will get a sudden liking for show tunes.
Your lack of reading skills for one.
Oh hell yes. Since they are too. Ugh!!!!!
If the recipient is taking meds that suppress hiv replication...the immune system can probably cope. But if resistance by hiv occurs, immune system will be severely challenged. Of course, assuming a competent immune system., the antirejection drugs will suppress it....pt. will be more susceptible to infections, cancer...
The patient is in her 60’s? HIV patients have accelerated aging because of HIV. I assume they die 14 years early. Average age of death is 74. Hmmm.
To look up articles that explain HIV patients’ accelerated aging, check keywords hivaging and hivacceleratedaging.
In unrelated news a mysterious outbreak of monkey buttpox has occurred in populations of heart patients
So how is that any different from giving an HIV positive patient powerful immune suppressing drugs?
It’s irrelevant whether the patient gets the HIV from the donated organ or already has it.
You missed the point.
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