World’s first HIV patient transplant

Surgeons at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center successfully carried out the first ever transplant between two living HIV carriers. A woman donated a kidney to her husband, who has since returned to work. The main problem was to prevent rejection by the man’s compromised immune system.
http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Worlds-first-live-kidney-donation-by-HIV-carrier-and-transplant-into-another-carrier-announced-by-Tel-Aviv-Sourasky-Medical-Center-323225

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