AIDS: Use the first case of HIV infection living donor kidney
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Roma, 18 mar. (Adnkronos Health) - unprotected sex a few days before donating a kidney: a result, HIV infection and for the man who offered the organ for the recipient. E 'success in New York City, where he encountered the first case of infection of this kind since 1985, the year in which the tests were introduced for the screening of the AIDS virus.
The patient who received the organ, which is necessary due to severe kidney failure - returns the 'Los Angeles Times' - had no prior history of sexually transmitted diseases, injection drug use or risky sexual activity. The donor had syphilis in the past instead of contract and claimed to be homosexual. But tests carried out 79 days before transplantation did not revealed the presence of HIV, hepatitis B or C. Thus, the operation was carried out, namely in 2009. The patient, who was also tested for HIV 12 days before surgery, then suffered several hospitalizations for problems associated with transplantation. A year later, revealed his HIV status, as well as that of the donor. The case has attracted the attention of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now recommends that control HIV more often, not later than seven days before such an operation. According to the authorities is also essential to inform donors about the importance of avoiding risky behavior in the weeks before the operation, recipients but also about possible dangers that are inherent in organ transplantation.
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