1. A Brazilian university hospital position regarding transplantation criteria for HIV-positive patients according to the current literature
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Jose Otto Reusing-Junior, Marta Heloísa Lopes, Natalya Zaidan Maluf, Maura Salarolli de Oliveira, Max Igor Banks Ferreira Lopes, Lígia Camera Pierrotti, Fatuma Catherine Atieno Odongo, Tânia Mara Varejão Strabelli, Alice Tung Wan Song, Silvia Vidal Campos, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Heloisa Helena de Sousa Marques, Luiz Sergio Azevedo, Nadia Litvinov, Marjorie Vieira Batista, Edson Abdala, and Helío Helh CaiaffaFilho Helh Caiaffa-Filho more...
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Immunossupression ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,MEDLINE ,HIV Infections ,Hiv management ,Review Article ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Hospitals, University ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,TRANSPL ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Intensive care medicine ,Contraindication ,lcsh:R5-920 ,business.industry ,Patient Selection ,HIV ,virus diseases ,Organ Transplantation ,General Medicine ,University hospital ,Transplant Recipients ,Transplantation ,lcsh:Medicine (General) ,business ,Solid organ transplantation ,Brazil ,Medical literature - Abstract
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection was considered a contraindication for solid organ transplantation (SOT) in the past. However, HIV management has improved since highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became available in 1996, and the long-term survival of patients living with HIV has led many transplant programs to reevaluate their policies regarding the exclusion of patients with HIV infection. Based on the available data in the medical literature and the cumulative experience of transplantation in HIV-positive patients at our hospital, the aim of the present article is to outline the criteria for transplantation in HIV-positive patients as recommended by the Immunocompromised Host Committee of the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo. more...
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- 2019
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