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US doctors perform 1st-ever heart transplant between 2 HIV-positive patients

By IANS | Updated: August 3, 2022 21:27 IST

New York, Aug 3 In a world first, the US doctors successfully performed HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant....

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New York, Aug 3 In a world first, the US doctors successfully performed HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant.

The patient, in her sixties, suffered from advanced heart failure and received the life-saving donation, along with a simultaneous kidney transplant, in early spring.

The complex surgery, by a team of doctors at Montefiore Health System in New York City, lasted four hours.

The procedure is a "milestone in the history of organ donation," said Ulrich P. Jorde, Cardiac Transplantation & Mechanical Circulatory Support, at Montefiore, in a statement.

"Thanks to significant medical advances, people living with HIV are able to control the disease so well that they can now save the lives of other people living with this condition," Jorde added.

The woman spent five weeks recovering in the hospital. She is currently being monitored by her transplant physic at Montefiore.

In 2013, the US HIV Organ Policy Equity Act enabled people living with HIV to donate their organs to a HIV-positive recipient. However, it has taken almost 10 years for this opportunity to become a reality for heart transplantation.

"Making this option available to people living with HIV expands the pool of donors and means more people, with or without HIV, will have quicker access to a lifesaving organ," said the patient's cardiologist, Dr. Omar Saeed, who is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

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Tags: Montefiore Health System, Inc.Omar saeedusNew York CityAlbert Einstein College Of MedicineAlbert resnick
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