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Doctors were able to completely cure a woman of HIV with a cord blood transplant, writes The New York Times, citing a report presented at a conference on retroviruses and opportunistic infections in the US city of Denver.
According to the publication, the woman is known to be middle-aged and mixed race. In addition to HIV, the woman suffered from leukemia. In 2017, she underwent a cord blood transplant to treat cancer. The blood was taken from a partially compatible donor with a mutation that blocks HIV from entering cells. In addition, the woman received a blood transfusion from a close relative to provide immune protection while the graft heals, which takes about six weeks.
37 months after transplantation, the patient stopped antiretroviral therapy. More than 14 months later, she showed no evidence of HIV in her blood tests and no antibodies to the virus.
In previous cases of curing HIV patients, men who were also diagnosed with cancer received bone marrow transplants. They developed severe side effects, including graft-versus-host disease, as it is very difficult to find a compatible donor for this procedure, the publication notes.
Source: Rosbalt
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