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Case Reports
. 2009 Jul;19(3):119-21.
doi: 10.4103/0971-4065.57110.

Renal transplantation in a HIV positive patient

A Mann  1 , P Soundararajan, S Shroff
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Case Reports

Renal transplantation in a HIV positive patient

A Mann et al. Indian J Nephrol. 2009 Jul.

Abstract

Historically HIV positive patients were considered a contraindication for renal transplant. After the year 1996, with the introduction of HAART the retropositive patients live longer and therefore end stage organ disease is now an increasingly important cause of mortality and morbidity in these patients. Here we report our experience for the first time in India. A forty nine year old hypertensive female from Africa who was diagnosed chronic kidney disease and retropositive status, progressed to end stage renal disease and underwent live related renal transplant at our centre.

Keywords: Human immunodeficiency virus; end stage renal failure; kidney transplantation.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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