HIV disease and the abdominal surgeon
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- Elmi Muller; Adam Boutall
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- Abdominal Trauma, Peritoneum, and Retroperitoneum ISBN: 019286243X
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This chapter evaluates important considerations for HIV positive patients undergoing surgery and highlight some of the important issues reported in the literature. Clinical data have been pooled from different cohorts in order to show some of the common issues encountered in HIV positive transplantation. Searches were performed on MEDLINE via PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane CENTRAL to create a comprehensive table for current evidence for different issues currently encountered when transplanting HIV positive patients.