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Kidney Transplants Between People With HIV Have High Success Rates

A long-term study also found that superinfection—acquiring a second strain of HIV—was not a risk for the transplantees.

People with HIV who receive kidney transplants from deceased HIV-positive donors have high long-term success rates and are not at apparent risk of superinfection, as the contraction of a second, distinct strain of the virus is known.

Publishing their findings in The New England Journal of Medicine, a research team conducted an observational study of 51 people with HIV who received kidney transplants from deceased HIV-positive donors in South Africa starting in 2008. The team included investigators at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Death

Sometimes I think it would be easier if Lyme and the co infections would just kill me already, I cannot take much more fighting. I’m losing the fight. 😞heaven sounds even more amazing right now. P.s. I’m not saying I want or will kill myself, I will not.

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HIV No Longer Raises Risk of Severe Liver Disease in Those With Hep C

Better antiretrovirals have likely mitigated HIV’s effects on the risk of end-stage liver disease and liver cancer in those with hep C.

Among people with hepatitis C virus (HCV), being coinfected with HIV is no longer associated with an increased risk of decompensated cirrhosis, also known as end-stage liver disease, or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC, the most common form of liver cancer), aidsmap reports.

Past research indicated that HIV coinfection among those with HCV increased the risk of end-stage liver disease and liver cancer. But researchers believe that improved antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for HIV as well as higher rates of people on ARV treatment in recent years have mitigated these excess risks.

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Hepatitis C Increases Risk of Death Among People on HIV Treatment

People on treatment for HIV have a higher risk of death if they are coinfected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), MD Magazine reports. Treating hep C lowers the risk.

Publishing their findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers analyzed data on 3,056 people with HIV participating in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study and the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. A total of 543 of these individuals had hep C upon entering either study.

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Misdiagnosis and Coinfection of Localized Pulmonary Histoplasmosis with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review of Published Cases - Research

Pulmonary histoplasmosis is often misdiagnosed as or coinfected with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). This study aims to analyze the misdiagnosis or co-occurrence of published cases of pulmonary TB and pulmonary histoplasmosis. Cases of histoplasmosis with dissemination were excluded, as it affects other organs. Systematic research was conducted using PubMed, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, BioRxiv, and MedRxiv…

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An Action Plan for Cold or Flu + COVID-19

Photo Credit: diovp / Getty Images SOURCES: Arti Madhavan, MD, specialist-in-chief of family medicine, Detroit Medical Center. Luci Leykum, MD, chief clinical officer, Harbor Health, Austin, TX. Frontiers in Medicine: “COVID-19 and Influenza Co-infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.” Cell Research: “Coinfection with influenza A virus enhances SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.” CDC: “COVID-19:…

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