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Review
. 2019 Apr 1:74:e941.
doi: 10.6061/clinics/2019/e941.

A Brazilian university hospital position regarding transplantation criteria for HIV-positive patients according to the current literature

Lígia Camera Pierrotti  1   2 , Nadia Litvinov  2   3 , Silvia Figueiredo Costa  2   4 , Luiz Sérgio Fonseca de Azevedo  2   5 , Tânia Mara Varejão Strabelli  2   6 , Silvia Vidal Campos  2   7 , Fatuma Catherine Atieno Odongo  1 , Jose Otto Reusing-Junior  5 , Alice Tung Wan Song  8 , Max Igor Banks Ferreira Lopes  1 , Marjorie Vieira Batista  1 , Marta Heloisa Lopes  2   4 , Natalya Zaidan Maluf  2   9 , Hélio Helh Caiaffa-Filho  2   10 , Maura Salarolli de Oliveira  2   11 , Heloisa Helena de Sousa Marques  2   3 , Edson Abdala  2   4
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A Brazilian university hospital position regarding transplantation criteria for HIV-positive patients according to the current literature

Lígia Camera Pierrotti et al. Clinics (Sao Paulo). .

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.

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