Why do HIV patients carry higher risk of allograft rejections in Kidney transplantation?

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Deborah Jean Verran

There are two hypotheses as outlined in the discussion section of the recent publication in the NEJM of the South African experience of transplanting deceased donor kidneys from HIV +ve donors into HIV +ve recipients.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1408896#t=articleDiscussion

Wisit Cheungpasitporn

Thank you very much, Dr.Verran for a nice reference!