{"id":369,"date":"2011-01-25T16:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T22:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagomedicalmalpracticeattorney-blog.lawblogger.net\/2011\/01\/25\/chicago_hospitals_alter_organ\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T05:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T11:33:46","slug":"chicago_hospitals_alter_organ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/chicago_hospitals_alter_organ\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Hospitals Alter Organ Transplant Rules After 2007 HIV Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the 1980s, the risk of transmitting HIV through transplanted organs was fairly high, at a time when even blood transfusions put patients at risk for contracting the deadly virus.  However, in 1985, HIV antibody testing became available, which enabled doctors and medical staff to test to see whether organs were infected with HIV.  Therefore in today&#8217;s medical climate it is unlikely that an organ transplant recipient would receive organs infected with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 2007, four Chicago patients were found to have transmitted HIV by way of their transplanted organs.  While the transplant surgeries were done at three different Chicago Hospitals, each of the four patients received organs from the same organ donor.  At the time of the transplant surgery the donor was not known to be infected with HIV.  His organs passed the standard tests for HIV antibodies; however, those tests could not have detected HIV if the donor acquired the infection within a few weeks of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the way these 2007 transplant surgeries were handled argue that a nucleic acid test could have detected the HIV infection earlier.  However, the nucleic acid test was not approved by the FDA until 2009 and even today is not effective 100 percent of the time; too many false positives make the nucleic acid test unreliable as an universal screening tool.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/medical-malpractice-lawyer\/chicago_hospitals_alter_organ\/#more-369\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the 1980s, the risk of transmitting HIV through transplanted organs was fairly high, at a time when even blood transfusions put patients at risk for contracting the deadly virus. However, in 1985, HIV antibody testing became available, which enabled doctors and medical staff to test to see whether organs were infected with HIV. 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