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July 2001 Cover
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Surgeons at the University of Tokyo Hospital completed a 20-hour operation to transplant part of a liver into a hemophiliac man with HIV and hepatitis C. The patient, who contracted the infections from contaminated
blood products, received a part of his older brother's liver. Both patients are fairing well. "A new step has been taken in transplant operations," chief surgeon Professor Masatoshi Makuuchi said of the procedure, the first such
transplant in Japan involving a person with HIV.
Editor's Note: from the Associated Press
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