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More than 40 years after Professor Chris Barnard won world acclaim for pioneering the heart transplant, Groote Schuur Hospital is once again in the limelight.
Cape Town surgeon Dr Elmi Muller and her team have received worldwide attention for their pioneering work in transplanting kidneys from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients. The surgery was recently featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Groote Schuur surgeon was also invited to the US to discuss her work at the National Institutes of Health meeting there.
South African surgeon's pioneering HIV surgery
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The first HIV kidney transplant was carried out two years ago, and since then the team have performed nine similar procedures. "We have set a precedent. If everything goes well this could change things for HIV-positive people needing a kidney transplant."
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#1 - Sun Jul 25, 2010 4:55 AM EDTHow cool - i am assuming they wouldn't have a hope in hell of be giving an HIV free kidney?
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I am not entirely sure... if there is an HIV+ kidney available, then obviously it would have to go to an HIV+ recipient. But if an HIV- kidney was available but the only tissue-match was with an HIV+ recipient then I doubt they would deny them. My guess is that if it was a toss-up between HIV+ and HIV- recipients for an HIV- kidney, then the HIV- person would get it.
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