Articles tagged "HIV virus"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Posttransplant Malignancy in HIV+ Kidney Transplant Recipients
D. Sawinski¹, R. Fitzsimmons¹, J. Locke², J. Trofe-Clark¹, B. Shelton², P. Reese¹, E. Blumberg¹
¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients and people living with HIV are both at increased risk for malignancy, including cancers that are virally-mediated. Despite the recognition of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Covid-19 in Hiv-infected Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Case Series
M. Ramanathan, A. Fernandez, Y. Natori, J. Simkins, J. Camargo, M. Morris, N. Rivera, M. Loebe, G. Ciancio, L. Abbo, A. Mattiazzi, G. Guerra, S. Anjan
University of Miami, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with increased mortality and morbidity in immunosuppressed patients. Data on management and outcomes in HIV-infected solid organ transplant…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Outcomes in HIV+ Recipients: A Single-Center Study
M. Samra¹, A. Hall², I. Tang²
¹Medicine, Edward Hines VA, Hines, IL, ²Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: HIV+ patients are eligible to recieve a kidney transplant (KT) provided they meet criteria of undetectable viral load (VL) and CD4 count >200. We…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Efficacy of Hope: Analysis of Quality HIV+ Deceased Donor Organ Availability
G. E. Owens¹, B. Shelton¹, P. MacLennan¹, D. Sawinski², J. E. Locke¹
¹Transplant, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Transplant, University of Pennsylvania, Philadeplphia, PA
*Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the number of organs actually available for HIV+ to HIV+ transplant utilizing data on a national…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Forgiven Disease: Outcomes of Lung Transplantation in Two HIV-Infected Patients
S. Biswas Roy¹, M. T. Olson², M. A. Smith¹, R. M. Bremner¹, R. Walia¹, A. Arjuna¹
¹Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, ²University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
*Purpose: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) seropositivity is generally considered a contraindication to lung transplantation (LTx). HIV-infected adults are at higher risk of developing chronic lung…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Conversion to Belatacept in HIV(+) Renal Transplant Recipients
A. Santeusanio, A. Bhansali, R. Shapiro, G. De Boccardo
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
*Purpose: HIV(+) renal transplant recipients were excluded from phase III trials of belatacept, and currently there are only scattered case reports.*Methods: This was a single…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HIV+ Living Kidney Donors in the United States: Cases and a Clinical Paradigm
D. Segev¹, C. Wolfe², D. Brown³, D. Fine³, K. Neumann⁴, N. Martinez⁵, D. Ostrander³, F. Al Ammary³, A. Tobian³, A. W. Baker⁶, C. Durand³
¹Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Unaffiliated, N/A, VA, ⁵Unaffiliated, N/A, GA, ⁶Duke University, School of Medicine, Durham, NC
*Purpose: To report clinical characteristics and outcomes of two people living with HIV who underwent laparoscopic donor nephrectomy*Methods: To facilitate donor selection, we first conducted…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Willingness to Accept and Beliefs Regarding Organs from HIV-Infected Donors: A Multi-Center Survey of Transplant Candidates Living with HIV
S. Rasmussen¹, S. Seaman¹, M. Bowring¹, D. Brown¹, A. Massie¹, A. Tobian¹, M. Henderson¹, F. Fletcher², B. Smith², A. Chao³, N. Gorupati³, K. Prakash⁴, S. Aslam⁴, D. Lee⁵, S. Trinh⁶, V. Kirchner⁷, T. Pruett⁷, G. Haidar⁸, K. Hughes⁸, M. Malinis⁹, D. Segev¹, J. Sugarman¹, C. Durand¹
¹JHU, Baltimore, MD, ²UAB, Birmingham, AL, ³UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ⁴UCSD, San Diego, CA, ⁵Drexel, Philadelphia, PA, ⁶Ochsner, New Orleans, LA, ⁷UMN, Minneapolis, MN, ⁸UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁹Yale, New Haven, CT
*Purpose: HIV-infected (HIV+) donor to HIV+ recipient (HIV D+/R+) transplantation might improve access to transplantation for candidates living with HIV. However, it is unclear whether…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Outcomes of Hiv-Positive Patients Post-Cardiac Transplantation
G. S. Liu¹, A. M. Wolfson², A. D. Salimbangon³, R. R. Chand⁴, P. Banankhah¹, J. Nattiv¹, P. A. Genyk¹, P. A. Kingsford¹, J. P. Li¹, D. Vucicevic⁵, K. Pandya¹, J. Rahman¹, M. Fong¹, E. C. DePasquale¹, A. S. Vaidya¹
¹Keck Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center, Tucson, AZ, ³UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Newark Beth-Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ
*Purpose: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is no longer an absolute contraindication to heart transplantation (HT) in many HT centers, but long-term post-HT outcomes of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Improved Outcomes Over the Past 13 Years in HIV Positive Kidney Transplant Recipients-A Single Center Experience
A. Mattiazzi¹, J. F. Camargo², S. Anjan², M. I. Morris², L. Abbo², J. Simkins², Y. Natori², K. Aoke³, A. Zilli³, R. Thurston³, M. Muldoon³, L. Preczewski³, L. J. Chen⁴, G. W. Burke⁴, G. Ciancio⁴, G. Guerra¹
¹Medicine. Division of Nephrology, University of Miami/Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, ²Medine. Division of Infectious Disease, University of Miami/Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, ³Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, ⁴Surgery, University of Miami/Miami Transplant Institute, Miami, FL
*Purpose: Kidney transplantation in HIV positive recipients (HIV+) is the treatment of choice for renal failure in patients (P) who maintain CD4+ counts ≥ 200/mm3and…