The world’s first HIV-positive to HIV-positive heart transplant was performed in New York City. And she got a new kidney out of it, too.
"This surgery is a milestone in the history of organ donation and offers new hope to people who once had nowhere to turn," Jorde said.
Montefiore is one of 25 centers in the country that is eligible to offer this type of surgery since it has met certain criteria and outcomes set forth byIn the United States alone, there are between 60,000 and 100,000 people who need a new heart. However, just last year, only around 3,800 transplants were performed.
"This was a complicated case and a true multidisciplinary effort by cardiology, surgery, nephrology, infectious disease, critical care and immunology," said the patient's cardiologist, Dr. Omar Saeed, who is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Einstein."Making this option available to people living with HIV expands the pool of donors and means more people, with or without HIV, will have quicker access to a lifesaving organ.
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