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

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. We report the first living donor liver transplant in an HIV-positive recipient in a developing country. Here are the details of the case.