Transplantation in the HIV+ Patient

Kidney Transplantation in a HIV Infected Patient: A Case Report

After introducing the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) into treatment, the life expectancy in patients infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased dramatically. Although the new therapy significantly improved survival and reduced the AIDS-related mortality, complications such as kidney, liver, and cardiac disease have largely replaced opportunistic infections as...

Steroid Induced Kaposi's Sarcoma in an HIV Negative Patient

Kaposi's sarcoma is one of malignancies that is most seen in HIV positive or immunocompromised patients. Kaposi's sarcoma typically involves the skin. We present a HIV negative, 31-year-old Iranian woman from Tehran with Kaposi's sarcoma associated with corticosteroid use.

Transplantation in HIV+ patients.

Twenty-five whole-organ recipients treated from 1981 through September 1988 were HIV carriers. Eleven were infected before transplantation, although this was not known until later in 8 recipients. The other 14 were infected perioperatively. Ten of the 25 recipients were infants or children. The organs transplanted were the liver (n = 15), and the heart or kidney (n = 5, each). After a mean foll...

Kidney Transplantation in the Diabetic Patient

Diabetes mellitus is one of the most important causes of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In patients with advanced diabetic kidney disease, kidney transplantation (KT) with or without a pancreas transplant is the treatment of choice. We aimed to review current data regarding kidney and pancreas transplant options in patients with both type 1 and 2 diabetes and the outcomes of different treatment ...

HIV+ patients and HIV eradication - allogeneic transplantation.