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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:1639-1640
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Brief communications

Should HIV-positive recipients undergo heart transplantation?

Gianluigi Bisleri, MDa, Jeffrey A. Morgan, MD*,a, Mario C. Deng, MDa, Donna M. Mancini, MDa, Mehmet C. Oz, MDa

a Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Received for publication June 21, 2003; accepted for publication July 14, 2003.

* Address for reprints: Jeffrey A. Morgan, MD, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 177 Fort Washington Ave, Milstein Hospital 7GN-435, New York, NY 10032, USA
jm2240@columbia.edu

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Several centers have reported successful midterm results in HIV-positive patients who have undergone solid-organ transplantation.1,2 These reports have generally been limited to hepatic and renal transplantation. However, Calabrese and colleagues3 recently described a case of an HIV-positive patient who underwent successful orthotopic cardiac transplantation with midterm follow-up. The aim of this report is to describe another case of successful cardiac transplantation in an HIV-positive patient.

Clinical summary

Our patient was a 42-year-old man with a 4-year history of HIV without any previous opportunistic infections. The patient had idiopathic cardiomyopathy with an ejection fraction of 10% and a history of multiple admissions for New York Heart Association class IV heart failure, which . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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