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The clinical course of HIV seropositive renal allograft recipients is ill defined. Thus, a retrospective analysis of mortality, morbidity and graft survival was performed in two groups of HIV-positive patients. Group 1 (nine patients), seropositive for an indefinite period of time prior to transplantation (eight IV drug abusers, one homosexual), all lost their grafts after a mean period of 23±11 months from chronic rejection (six), complicated by focal glomerular sclerosis and nephrotic syndrome in three cases, sepsis (two) and death with a functioning graft (one). Four patients died, two from sepsis, one from Kaposi’s sarcoma and one from fluid overload. Of the remaining five patients, all on hemodialysis, one had AIDS and four were asymptomatic after a mean period of 44 months following graft failure. Prolonged hospitalizations for both infections and acute rejection were common. Group 2 (six patients) seroconverted in the perioperative period, and two had functioning allografts at 78 and 100 months post-transplant. Causes of allograft loss, patient death and infection-related complications were similar to those of group 1, but acute rejection was rare. In conclusion, HIV infection in renal allograft recipients was associated with poor allograft survival due mainly to rejection, mostly chronic, often complicated by glomerular sclerosis and nephrotic syndrome. Infectious complications requiring hospitalization were also increased.
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Delaney, V., Sumrani, N., Hong, J., Davis, R., Sommer, B. (1992). The course of HIV disease in renal allograft recipients. In: Kootstra, G., Opelz, G., Buurman, W.A., van Hooff, J.P., MacMaster, P., Wallwork, J. (eds) Transplant International Official Journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77423-2_41
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