Organs ‘too risky’ to donate may be safer than we think. We crunched the numbers and here’s what we found

Accepting a donor kidney with a small risk of carrying HIV or hepatitis B or C might be worth thinking about. from http://www.shutterstock.comOrgans from potential donors once rejected as being unsafe to transplant may not be as risky as once thought, new Australian research shows. Our study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, suggests organs from injecting drug users or men who have sex with men, for instance, could safely open up the pool of available organs. That’s so long as donors test negative for blood-borne infections, such as HIV, and hepatitis B and C. Currently, organs from this and other groups considered high risk are often rejected outright, for fear of transmitting hidden infections to the recipient. If transplant criteria were based

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