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

• Autor(a) principal: Pierrotti, Lígia Camera
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Litvinov, Nadia, Costa, Silvia Figueiredo, Azevedo, Luiz Sérgio Fonseca de, Strabelli, Tânia Mara Varejão, Campos, Silvia Vidal, Odongo, Fatuma Catherine Atieno, Reusing-Junior, Jose Otto, Song, Alice Tung Wan, Lopes, Max Igor Banks Ferreira, Batista, Marjorie Vieira, Lopes, Marta Heloisa, Maluf, Natalya Zaidan, Caiaffa-Filho, Helío Helh CaiaffaFilho Helh, Oliveira, Maura Salarolli de, Marques, Heloisa Helena de Sousa, Abdala, Edson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Clinics
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/clinics/article/view/157988
• topic: HIV; TRANSPL; Immunossupression

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 HIVpositive patients at our hospital, the aim of the present article is to outline the criteria for transplantation in HIVpositive patients as recommended by the Immunocompromised Host Committee of the Hospital das Clı´nicas of the University of Sa˜o Paulo.