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A new rule applies to liver and kidney transplants and will increase access to these organs, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
A woman in her 30s who is one of the four organ transplant patients infected with HIV and hepatitis was not told that the infected donor was high-risk, her attorney said.
An organ donor in Chicago infected four transplant patients with the AIDS virus in what a donor group says is the first such transmission in the United States in 13 years. The transplants occurred in January at three Chicago hospitals. The patients infected with HIV and the virus for hepatitis C did not learn of their status until the last two weeks, according to medical officials. Michael Millis, chief of the transplantation program at the University of Chicago Hospitals, said his staff was told of the problem on November 1 and brought in the two patients who had transplants there for testing the next morning.
The surgery is a breakthrough in HIV-to-HIV organ donations, and should inspire more poz people to become living organ donors.
