The donor, a 49-year-old homeless man who suffered irreversible brain damage after cardiac arrest, carried a germ called lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, or LCMV, the same infection that killed three transplant patients from Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 2005.
“We all know that as much as we explain to the patients and inform them, they're relying on us and our medical judgment about whether this is a safe transplant,” said Dr. Douglas W. Hanto, chief of the Division of Transplantation at…
