Surgeons perform world's first successful lung transplant between HIV-positive patients
外科醫生成功完成全球首例 HIV 陽性患者間的肺部移植手術
更新於: 2026年6月22日 上午10:30
Medical history was made on March 21, 2026, at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute in New York.
2026年3月21日,紐約NYU Langone移植中心創造了醫學史。
Surgeons successfully performed the world’s first lung transplant from an HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient.
外科醫生成功執行了全球首例將人類免疫缺乏病毒(HIV)陽性捐贈者的肺臟,移植給HIV陽性接受者的手術。
The recipient, 56-year-old Bertrand Nelson, had lived with HIV for over 25 years while battling sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease.
接受者是56歲的柏特蘭·尼爾森(Bertrand Nelson),他在與類肉瘤病抗爭的同時,已與HIV共處超過25年。
His health declined severely after contracting Legionnaires' disease, eventually requiring him to rely on supplemental oxygen.
在感染退伍軍人症後,他的健康狀況嚴重惡化,最終必須依賴補充氧氣。
Halazun performed a combined double-lung and liver transplant on Nelson.
這項突破是移植醫學的一個分水嶺時刻,因為它成功擴大了HIV陽性患者的捐贈者來源,這些患者先前並不符合資格。
This breakthrough is a watershed moment for transplant medicine, as it successfully expands the donor pool for HIV-positive patients who were previously ineligible.
專家認為,這是邁向實現HIV陽性社群在醫療保健與器官移植方面享有更大公平性的一大步,證明了專業的醫療介入可以改變生命。
