WASHINGTON, United States - The kidney of a 35-year-old HIV-positive woman has been transplanted into another patient with the Aids virus, US surgeons announced on Thursday, in a major medical breakth
rough.
The donor, identified as Nina Martinez, was to address reporters alongside her doctors at 1:00 pm. The recipient has not been named. Before this transplant operation, doctors had believed it was too risky to leave an HIV-positive patient with only one kidney.
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