There are two ways that HIV patients’ bodies can keep the virus under control after they stop antiretroviral therapy, a new ...

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- People living with HIV who need a kidney can rest assured that outcomes are similar whether their kidney donor was also HIV-positive or not, a new ...

Of note, the incidence of HIV breakthrough infection was higher among recipients of kidneys from donors with HIV (incidence rate ratio, 3.14), and there was one potential HIV superinfection among ...

Nephrology > Kidney Transplantation People With HIV Can Safely Receive Kidneys From Donors With HIV — U.S. study findings should help squash "remaining doubts" about safety, researcher says by ...

For this reason, immune-suppressing drugs are used to prevent organ-transplant rejection. However, early success with HIV-to-HIV kidney transplantation alleviated these concerns.

This is called superinfection. Superinfection is rare -- it happens in less than 4% of people. You're at the highest risk of superinfection in the first 3 years after you get HIV.

Health Viruses, Infections & Disease HIV Patient's immune system 'naturally' cures HIV in the second case of its kind News By Joanna Thompson published 20 November 2021 ...

In addition, the researchers identified HIV superinfection as a potential cause of sudden virologic breakthrough in people with HIV who halt treatment, especially when the breakthrough occurs ...

Donor-derived HIV superinfection “might not be a significant clinical concern” in transplants between people with HIV if the organ recipient is well monitored and virally suppressed on ...

In contrast to other studies that track the evolution of a single HIV variant to establish seeding dynamics, superinfection provides a “higher resolution” into reservoir turnover and seeding by ...

Longer-Term Outcomes of HIV-Positive–to–HIV-Positive Renal Transplantation Published October 2, 2019 N Engl J Med 2019;381: 1387 - 1389 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1903013 ...