Kidney transplant survival can be long-term for people with HIV
Monday, January 19, 2009 - 18:07
in Health & Medicine
A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant failure are recognized and tightly managed.
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