'London patient' seems to be free of HIV after stem cell transplant | Health24com
after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the"Berlin patient", doctors reported.
The latest case"shows the cure of Timothy Brown was not a fluke and can be recreated", said Dr Keith Jerome of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle who had no role. He added that it could lead to a simpler approach that could be used more widely.and will be presented at an HIV conference in Seattle.The patient has not been identified. He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003 and started taking drugs to control the infection in 2012. It's unclear why he waited that long.
The transplant changed the London patient's immune system, giving him the donor's mutation and HIV resistance.Usually, HIV patients expect to stay on daily pills for life to suppress the virus. When drugs are stopped, the virus roars back, usually in two to three weeks.
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