A US woman has become the third known person who's gone into HIV remission thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research presented at a conference
A US woman has become the third known person who's gone into HIV remission, and the first mixed-race woman, thanks to a transplant of stem cells from umbilical cord blood, according to research presented at a conference Tuesday.
The woman, whom the researchers described as middle-aged and of mixed race, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia four years after an HIV diagnosis, according to an abstract from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.After the leukemia diagnosis, she received high-dose chemotherapy that destroyed her blood cells. Later, she got a transplant of stem cells from an adult family member to replenish her own blood cell levels.
About 50 people a year who have HIV and blood cancer may benefit from this approach, according to Bryson.Glesby agreed:"This is not the type of treatment that would be appropriate for somebody who does not have a medical need to have a transplant." This type of transplant can be fatal in up to 20% of people, he said, or it might cause other health problems.
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