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Solid-Organ Transplantation in HIV-Infected Patients

Author(s) -

Scott D. Halpern,

Peter A. Ubel,

Arthur L. Caplan

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmsb020632

Subject(s) - medicine , transplantation , asymptomatic , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , organ transplantation , solid organ , intensive care medicine , immunology

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.

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