Successful Cardiac Transplantation in an HIV-1–Infected Patient with Advanced Disease

Abstract

The advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy has greatly improved the long-term outcome of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. This article reports successful cardiac transplantation in a patient infected with HIV type 1 (HIV-1) in whom heart failure had developed after daunorubicin therapy for Kaposi's sarcoma.