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HIV infection after heart transplantation: a case report.

J Heart Lung Transplant. 1991 Jul-Aug;10(4):611-3. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/92002071
Anthuber M; Kemkes BM; Heiss MM; Schuetz A; Kugler C; Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Munich,; Federal Republic of Germany.

Abstract: A 38-year-old man received a heart transplant because of dilated cardiomyopathy in 1984, at a time when no HIV screening test was available. Two and a half years after heart transplantation he was found to be HIV seropositive, but as of March 1990 he was still without symptoms of clinical AIDS. Neither the patient nor the organ donor belonged to any of the known risk groups, and a retrospective analysis revealed that presumably cryoprecipitates of clotting factors were the vectors of transmission.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*TRANSMISSION Adult AIDS Serodiagnosis Blood Coagulation Factors/THERAPEUTIC USE Cardiomyopathy, Congestive/SURGERY Case Report *Heart Transplantation Human HIV Seropositivity Male Time Factors JOURNAL ARTICLE

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