Experience of our first-ever living donor liver transplantation in HIV-positive patient: Report from developing country with literature review

Abstract

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is one of the gravest health challenges worldwide in the present era as it has been for the past 4 decades. HIV has always been a sort of stigma and most clinicians are reluctant to perform liver transplantation for chronic liver disease patients with HIV co-infection. Patients with CD4+ cell count >100/ml along with suppressed mRNA levels on PCR, stable HAART regimen, and absence of any AIDS-specific illness or opportunistic infections are the requirements for selecting HIV-positive recipients for liver transplantation.